>>>In several places in our application executable we have hooks that call custom, external, encrypted programs whose names are stored in a table.
>>>
>>>Recently, a new custom program needed to USE a confidential free table that is included in the executable, and VFP couldn't find it.
>>>
>>>Is there any way that we can force the external program to look for the table inside the exe file?
>>>
>>>TIA,
>>>
>>>Alex
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>>Hi Alex,
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>>I have a prg, usetable, which takes the following parameters:
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>>LPARAMETERS tcTable, tcAlias, tcDir, tlExclusive, tnDSID, tlNoUpdate, tlLoud, tlUseDD
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>>There is no execscript or macroing involved, for the reasons others have cited.
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>>Mine is geared toward my particular usage requirements, but you get the idea.
>>
>>hth,
>>
>>Hank
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>Thank you for the suggestion Hank.
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>I can figure out most of the parameters except tnDSID and tlLoud. (Is tlLoud something like Verbose or Notify? )
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>LPARAMETERS tcTable, tcAlias, tcDir, tlExclusive, tnDSID, tlNoUpdate, tlLoud, tlUseDD
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>Alex

My guesses are that you are right about ttLoud and tnDSID is the DataSessionID where the table will be opened.