>>I am experiancing a very perplexing problem in my code. I try to execute the following line of code.
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>> USE Home ALIAS MHome
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>>and get ALIAS NOT FOUND three times.
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>You may be getting bitten by the name HOME - it's a VFP reserved keyword. Try quote encapsulating it, like:
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>USE ("Home") ALIAS MHome
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>>This line of and several other similar lines work perfectly.
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>> USE Employee ORDER Id ALIAS MEmployee
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>>All the files exist in the same dictionary file. If I remove the ALIAS portion of the command it works and in spite of the error message it opens the table and assigns it the correct alias.
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>>This is VERY confusing and I can't seem to track it down. I thought it might be a referance to "Home." in an index but I cleaned them all out and it still persists. Validating the database brings up the same error but completes with a Database Valid message.
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That was a great idea (and VERRY quick response) but it didn't work in this case. I did fail to state that I am also using StoneField SDT5.1d. I don't think this has anything to do with the problem though.

Terry