>>>....and the fact that i am actually using these outdated commands would make me the collector.
>>>Well they still have value - appreciate your passing them along naomi.
>>>
>>>k
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>>The used(), dbUsed() and USE and use in select('MyAlias') commands are not outdated (well, if we forget that the whole VFP language is outdated now :(), they are perfectly OK (if you're using VFP tables/database as your backend).
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>use in select('MyAlias') can be simplified to
>USE IN MyAlias

True, but the use in select('MyAlias') form is safer, because if MyAlias is not opened, this syntax doesn't generate an error.