Walter,

I don't see anything different in VFP9. Anyway, I think that what you're posted is a bug because we should be able to reference a table or a cursor by its alias anywhere it's visible.

>Very strange, In my application it is reproducable very clearly: A certain piece of code runs without a problem in VFP8SP1 and does not in VFP9.
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>I could replicate the problem in the applications command window every time, though your example indicates somthing else must play a role here. Maybe a SETting or a SYS(). Anyways did you look at fabios version in Thread #1000615? There definately is somthing different in VFP9, whether it is a bug of changed default setting, I don't know.
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