>I cannot seem to understand why my SELECTing of a table as in:
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>SELECT (m.tmpFile) in FoxPro 2.6a for Windows is not working.
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>I've tried:
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>SELECT &m.tmpFile and also SELECT (&m.tmpFile) all to no avail.
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>All I get is an error that says "ALIAS L" not available.
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>The m.tmpFile translates to "L:\Appstats\sometablename"), so i can see the the SELECT statement is looking at only the first chanracter of the memvar m.tmpFile.

It's because the select command expects an alias, not a filename.