>>>Drat!! My old brain has forgotten how to use a string literally. Something to do with braces and quotes.
>>>It's like a file name stored in a variable and you want VFP to use the file name.
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>>USE (my variable)
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>>???
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>Gadzooks. I'm sorry to bother you with this. I was sure there were quotes used.
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>Thanks
Quotes needed when you use ALIAS in some functions:
USE (DBF([MyCursor])) AGAIN IN 0 SHARED
RECNO([MyAias])
RECCOUNT([MyAias])
etc.
:-)
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