>>>Interesting. I've just seen, probably for the 1st time:
>>>
>>>"File names follow your operating system's conventions."
>>>
>>>Was my assumption always the case back in DOS 8.3 days, then? Is that where I'm gettring the idea from?
>>>
>>>(I DO tend to stick to the lowest common denominator - thus avoiding clashes like this)
>>
>>I run the same code in FPD2.6a under WinXP. The only difference iresult is that allias assigned is the workearea letter.
>>

>>CREATE table x-35k (test c(20))
>>? DBF()    && C:\temp\x-35k
>>? ALIAS()  && D
>>

>
>Yes, I appreciate that, Sergey, but I'm talking about in a DOS env., when file naming conventions were more strict. IOW - going back to when I was 1st exposed, using dBASE III+
>
>Anyway, it doesn't matter - I'll continue using my "harmless" convention :-)


Yeah, in a production environment I would never use such a naming convention. I found out years ago that naming a table starting with a number was problematic so I never do that.