Hi David,

There is not 100% guarantee that the physical file would be created on disk, that's why the code was failing. I think Chaim Caron had a similar problem recently.

>Look what i figured out. I dont understand why this works, but it does
>
> *If I add the first field with the code ALTER TABLE ALIAS(m_alias)
> *I can then add the rest fields with ALTER TABLE DBF(m_alias)
>
>IF UPPER(m_alias)="SMFALIAS"
> && executing from program 1
> ALTER TABLE ALIAS(m_alias) ADD COLUMN age c(4)
>ELSE
> && executing from program 2
> ALTER TABLE DBF(m_alias) ADD COLUMN age c(4)
>ENDIF
>
>
> *intersting why does the code DBF() work now from both programs
> ALTER TABLE DBF(m_alias) ADD COLUMN room c(4)
> ALTER TABLE DBF(m_alias) ADD COLUMN FIRSTE c(25)
> ALTER TABLE DBF(m_alias) ADD COLUMN firsth c(25)
> ALTER TABLE DBF(m_alias) ADD COLUMN lasth c(30)
>
>Now I changed it as one of you told me to
>I dont know why the code was written this way, its pretty old code.
>
>I changed it to
> ALTER TABLE (m_alias) ADD COLUMN age c(4)
> ALTER TABLE (m_alias) ADD COLUMN room c(4)
> ALTER TABLE (m_alias) ADD COLUMN FIRSTE c(25)
> ALTER TABLE (m_alias) ADD COLUMN firsth c(25)
> ALTER TABLE (m_alias) ADD COLUMN lasth c(30)
>
>and everything is working now