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>>One big differencwe, with your approach you have take care of every USE command, with the error handler doing a retry you can forget about that error when you write you other code.
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>Yes, true...but either way, it comes down to trying open the table, getting an error, then opening it....I don't think one way is any better than the other.

Craig,

There should be an error, the CDX is missing. I would hate to have my code use a dbf then try to set order to get a tag name doesn't exist. The only time I want the dbf open without the cdx is during reindexing and I use Stonefield to that kind of work.

If there is a bug here it is that there is no error with out an error handler.

I, personally, prefer relagating this to the error handler.