That's what I eventually came up with. My original thoughts had been tunnel-visioned on using ON ERROR within a TRY-CATCH. Didn't stop to think you could nest them until well after I had started the thread.


>how about

>TRY
>   some code
>
>   TRY
>      lcFile = MyGetFileRoutine()
>      USE (lcFile)
>
>   CATCH WHEN "can't open file"
>      lcFile = MyGetAlternateFileRoutine()
>
>   CATCH TO oErr
>      THROW oErr
>
>   ENDTRY
>
>   more code
>
>CATCH
>   do the normal CATCH programming
>
>ENDTRY