Paul,
Make sure both forms use the same Datasession.
-Just a thought :)
Mark

>I have a table named zip that is stored on disk as \vfpapps\sc\data\sczip.dbf in a database named sc.
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>I issue the command in one form use zip in 0 and it works fine but in another form it does not work. With the form that it does not work in I get the error message that \vfpapps\sc\zip.dbf is not found. I determined that the database is open by issuing dbused('sc') and it returns true.
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>I cannot determine why I get different results from the exact same commands in 2 different forms.
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>Thanks,
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>Paul