I have not thought about that, never tried to change anything in dbc directly. If I understand you correctly, after creating the TEMP table and dropping the Original table, I would change the Name reference in the .DBC. But that would not change the physical name of the table, right?

Thank you.

>Are you aware that you can simply Use the dbc, and change the relevant records?
>
>>I am having a tough time create a little routine to rename a table in a database. I want to add a TEMP table to a database of the same structure as one of the existing. Then drop the original table and rename the TEMP table into the original.
>>
>>Here is what I do:
>>

>>cTblName = "MyTable"
>>use (cTblName)
>>afields(aDbfStruct)
>>set database to MyDatabase
>>create table TEMP name TEMP from array aDbfStruct
>>close tables
>>drop table (cTblName)
>>rename table ("TEMP") to (cTblName)
>>*-- I was hoping that rename table will rename actual file name
>>*-- but it does not. So I have to do this:
>>rename ("TEMP.DBF") to (cTblName + ".DBF")
>>rename ("TEMP.FPT") to (cTblName + ".FPT")
>>

>>
>>But the table MyTable.DBF is not part of the database after all of that.
>>
>>What am I missing?
>>
>>Thank you.