Thanks Borislav, that's it.
The decision to use non-production indexes was made before my time...
I think one reason was to speed up appends by disabling indexing.

Howard


>>When I executed a command like the following, I got an error indicating that 'File myproc.prg' does not exist.
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>>USE BMAIN.DBF INDEX BMAINI.CDX ORDER NAME SHARED AGAIN
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>>I included myproc in my program and the USE command now runs successfully.
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>>What can make the USE command execute code in my program?
>>I looked for rules and triggers but do not see any associated with this table.
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>>Thanks,
>>Howard
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>Check your indexes, somewhere in them you use MYPROC() as statement.
>Also WHY you use INDEX BMAINI.CDX? How you index your tables?