>>>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.
>>

>>USE (my variable)
>>

>>
>>???
>
>Gadzooks. I'm sorry to bother you with this. I was sure there were quotes used.
>
>Thanks

Quotes needed when you use ALIAS in some functions:

USE (DBF([MyCursor])) AGAIN IN 0 SHARED
*
RECNO([MyAias])
*
RECCOUNT([MyAias])

etc.
:-)