>>>use customer in select('customer')
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>>I don't understand. If you're opening a table for the first time you
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>>Use TableName in 0
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>>If you want to know the alias of an already open table you can use: SELECT("TableName")
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>>What you put above will try to open table in the alis that it is already open in, which does not make sense.
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>Actually, it does! It will open the new customer cursor in the workarea already occupied by any existing customer cursor OR it will open it in the equivalent of SELECT 0. Although I usually write it like...
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>use customer in (select("customer"))

Yes I understand this (but his 1st language isn't complex-speak) but, well, what a palarver, rather than just "in 0", unless he actually does want to " open the new customer cursor in the workarea already occupied by any existing customer cursor", which has not been stated as his wish.