>>>>Is there an easy way of telling if a table (in a multiuser environment) is already opened in the current data session under an unknow alias (don't ask)? I could always scan though all open work areas and test the table name of the alias, but that seems like the long way of getting the answer.
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>>>AUSED() ...
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>>Thanx, I was trying to avoid AUSED(). The function I wrote takes between 1 and 2 seconds to return the alias of an open file or a fail code.
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>Without using AUSED, you would have to attempt a USE on the table and see if it fails (obviously with error handling). Not cool.
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>-- Randy

For some reason there are 189 work areas used. It takes a second to test each alias to see if its table I need, I was hoping for something faster.