From USE command POV it's just a table as any other.

You can try EXECSCRIPT() function. It executes the code passed to it outside of APP context.

>Apparently, even if the table is a VCX, eh?
>
>OUCH!
>
>OK, thank you very much, Sergey.
>
>
>
>
>>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.