FoxPro will always prefer a table included in APP over external one regardless of the path specified. There's no way around it inside an APP.

>This is an odd one: I have code that looks like this

Use (lcClassLib) Again Shared Alias VCX

where lcClassLib is a fully qualified path name to a table.
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>What is happening is that if JustFName(lcClassLib) matches the name of a class library in my APP (PEMEditor.APP) ... it opens the class library from the APP, not the file name I asked for.
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>In other words -- it opened a different file than I asked for -- same JustFName, but in a completely different folder -- even though lcClassLib is the full path of the file I want to open.
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>Now, this problem does not occur in the Command Window, but only if it is executing code in the APP.
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>Any suggestions or thoughts?????
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>Thanks