>In several places in our application executable we have hooks that call custom, external, encrypted programs whose names are stored in a table.
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>Recently, a new custom program needed to USE a confidential free table that is included in the executable, and VFP couldn't find it.
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>Is there any way that we can force the external program to look for the table inside the exe file?
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>TIA,
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>Alex

Yes, create a function like DoCmd in your exe, preferably in the main procedure file which is startup at runtime..

FUNCTION DoCmd(cCommand)

&cCommand
ENDFUNC

Then you can call the following from an outside PRG

DoCmd("USE MyInternalTable")