Greetings and Salutations!

I think your problem centers around the way TeleMagic creates keys in its compound index files. Starting with the third tag (the first two tags are generic and deal with the TMLASTREV and CONTACTID fields), look at the structure of the indexes. You will notice that TeleMagic will create the indexes in a manner like the following:

UPPER(CONTACT1.OFFNUM+CONTACT1.CLINUM)

Notice the use of "CONTACT1." If you open any TeleMagic file (but especially the three contact files) with an alias other than its own name you will run into this problem. The compound index file will cry out that it can't find the file whose keys it contains.

In FoxPro 2.0 it would complain about the file CONTACT1.DBF not being open, in FoxPro 2.6 it would complain that it can't find the alias CONTACT1.

Hope this helps.

Cheers, Harry