>>>>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.
>:-)

Aha! That's where I was getting confused. Thanks again ;-)