Ah, I see. I misunderstood the question. You can work around the issue with the DROP TABLE command reporting that the file is not there by simply creating any table with the same name before dropping it. For example:

CREATE TABLE tax (dummy c(6))

DROP TABLE tax

I'm not sure if there's a truly clean way to do it, but this should work.

>I can remove it Interactively using VALID DATA RECOVER. But I need do it programatically. If I issue the VALID DATA RECOV command it comes up with a dialog wether to delete the link or not. The users are pretty dumb and the IT manager wants no user interaction when the DBCFIX program is run. There are over 10 locations that are missing different files. An they are all spread across this huge country.
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>TIA
>FRED