>it still makes me point :(
>

>select client.*,acc.status;  &&acc is the remote table
>from "C:\Work\acc" acc ;
>inner join mainbase! client.clientid;
>on acc.clientid =client.clientid
>

>
>and when i save the path 2 a variable it give me an error
>something like..cannot be used there

Remove space right after !