Jerry,

Just another idea: create a temprorary DBC, add your table to it, do all modifications, then free this table.

>I'm trying to create a routine that frees up a table from a DBC programmatically.
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>Using VFP 6, I issue a "FREE TABLE mytable". This works.
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>The problem I'm having is that "mytable" has long field names and one index tag that is based on a long field name. The first time I "USE mytable", I get error "Variable 'mylongfieldname' is not found.".
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>How can I suppress this error message from showing? Or how can I delete the tag(s) and re-create them without user intervention?
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>Thanks,
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>Jerryt