Thanks for the correction, Doug - I learn something new every time I log on. An interesting use of File() - Help says "Use FILE( ) to find a file on disk." which I took to mean physically there as a separate file.

Barbara

>Hi Elyse.
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>>My question is once my EXE is distributed and running on a user's machine, is there a way in code to determine whether a particular table had been included in the EXE or it has a physical presence on the user's machine.
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>FILE('filename') will return .T. for the file because it looks in the EXE but ADIR(laFiles, 'filename') will return 0 because it looks on the drive.
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>Doug