I want to put define table references in a .h file and be able to reference them in my program, but it does not seem to work.

example

#DEFINE _TABLENAME_S \\SERVERNAME\VOLUME\FOLDER\maintable.dbf alias maintable shared

when I try to
use _TABLENAME_S in the program it will not recognize the variable _TABLENAME_S

the program does have the #include hfilename.h in it.

any ideas?