If your tables are all in the same directory (only files to be processed), or if they are named similarly, you could set up a loop based on the results of an adir() function.

>Well thanks to all of you for your help and advices. What I am trying to
>acomplish is that I have about 40 tables that share the same record structure
>and I have to open one by one and change their struc (adding some new fields)
>the tables must remain separate from each other and then run some other program that will add some more info into them and at the end it will suply me
>with a SDF type file for extra processing..
>
>mark oliva

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