Hi Sergey, thanks for the reply.

>"Visual FoxPro assigns a default alias if a conflict between alias occurs or if you use the AGAIN keyword to open a table simultaneously in multiple work areas without specifying an alias when you open the table in each work area".
>What is not clear from above when this rule applies and when it doesn't.


This is what I think happens...
Views/cursors are effectively dbf files with a .tmp extension, but the first part of the tmp file is created when the view requested, so when the second opening occurs, the .tmp filename is different from the first, hence we don't get the "File is in use" message.


Regards,

Alan