>I know;
>As I said I do it sometime out of paranoya, for the same reason
>why people (myself included) sometime put select myalias before endscan :)
>Anyways I use this kind of construction mostly for report/preprocessing
>purposes so never really gave me any problem.
>But guilty as charged <vbg>

Do in command window

CREATE

enter name as temp.dbf

enter field1 as name of first field

click indexes tab

enter field1 as index tag name

enter temp.field1 as expression.

Click OK button. Error alias Temp not found.

OK, so you can't do it that way. So do this instead.

INDEX ON TEMP.FIELD1 TAG FIELD1

That worked! Yippeee. Must be a GOOD THING!

Now USE TEMP ALIAS SOMETHING.

Oops Error again!?!? Alias Temp not found?!?!? Just because something works NEVER EVER means that it's the right way to do it.

FIND THE RIGHT WAY TO DO STUFF AND ONLY DO IT! :)