Hey George,

Doh! I need more coffee before I start responding. You are completely correct. Thanks for the clarification.

>The above probably won't work. APPEND FROM requires a file not an alias name. Further, if a filtered representation of the table is created (which it probably will be), there won't be a file other than the original, so the original problem may remain. So...

>USE networktable IN 0 SHARED
>SELECT * FROM networktable INTO CURSOR foo NOFILTER
>lcfile = DBF('foo')
>USE IN networktable
>SELECT localtable
>APPEND FROM (lcfile)