>Barb,
>
>Just my 2 cents (US) on this. I avoid LOCFILE() like the plague. AFAIK, there's now way to avoid having it bomb the calling routine. It's one of the reasons (back in 2.6 with genscrn) that I never let it generate code to open my tables.

Your $.02 US agrees with everyone else' minor monetary contributions. Too bad - would have been useful.

Thanks,
Barbara