Your suggestion helped me find the culprit. #DEFINE MMEXEC_NAME testapp was choking for some reason. When I removed this define statement, the exe ran fine. But this is going to cause a problem because we are using a launcher.exe to run our app files. I'll find a way around it eventually.

Jim

>>I created a *very* simple exe called testapp using the Mere Mortals framework. When I run the application in debug mode everything works fine. When I run the exe I get an error "Alias testapp is not found." The name of the database is testapp, but there are no tables called testapp. I remember seeing this error years ago, but I can't remember how to fix it. Any help would be appreciated.
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>Jim,
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>What would happen if you try to use a database different from the name of the application? Change the name of the app from TestApp to myTestApp first just to see where exactly is the problem.