No, it's not a bug. But when a table is open that is part of a database, the database has to be open in the background (I'm not sure what the technical term is). It's just like structural indexes (CDX)....they are opened when the table is open even if an order is not set.

>This is what i've been getting at...The DISPLAY STATUS command does NOT show that the database file is open (unless I explicitly open it), and yet it seems that it is open nonetheless...Is this a bug possibly?