>Not exactly. Each private data session must open its own tables explicitly.

as I was beginning to suspect.

>From its vantage point, it doesn't know that the tables are open somewhere else in the app. However, in the guts of VFP, it knows,
>so it's able to do a USE AGAIN type of thing, so it is faster than the original USE.

do we always need to specify use AGAIN or is that "assumed" by vfp because you're in a PDS?

Thanks

Harry