kanap wrote: > Hi all, I am want to update a dataset using proc append but before > doing that how do we check that particular dataset is updating / using > by another user? Can some body give any ideas / code on this? Please > note that we don't have SAS /SHARE software here. Thanks for you help > in advance.

Where is the dataset ? - On a network share? - On a folder amongst users on one box ? - Both ?

Microsoft went and bought sysinternals, but all the utilities are still freely available. Take a look at the tools at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/

The Windows platform resource kit probably also has numerous tools for digging into system resource usage.

Should also look into the windows scripting component FileSystemObject.

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