Try that again without the typo's

local lnTally
local array laTables(1)

dbc2Convert = "\\tpdfiles\data\dfreeman\tip\data\rta\rta.dbc"
lnTally = GetDBCTableNames(dbc2Convert. @laTables)

for i = 1 to alen(laTables)
? aTables(i)
next

function GetDbCTablesNames( myDBC, taTables )

select objectname as tablename ;
from (myDBC) ;
where objecttype = "Table" ;
into array taTables

return _TALLY