Hi David,
>I understand what you are doing, but it's not clear to me how you force the FD to search down a path stored in a system table for its INCLUDE file.
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>My complaint is that the FD does not appear to use the PATH to resolve file references. If that's true, how does having a path stored in a table help? How do you specify the INCLUDE file reference so that FD looks for it in the path specified by your system table?

What is FD? I've just checked my system table, and this is what we have in Path:

bmps,data,progs,forms,menus,reports,classes,include,..\commonwg\classes,..\commonwg\data,..\commonwg\bmps,..\commonwg\forms,..\commonwg\progs,..\commonwg\reports,..\commonwg\mikecomm,..\..\DBC,..\..\DBC\ma,..\..\DBC\ct,..\..\DBC\ri,..\..\DBC\bldmstr,..\..\DBC\bldmstrp,..\..\DBC\lookups,..\..\DBC\Translation,..\..\DBC\jobs,..\..\DBC\jobs\metafiles,..\..\DBC\jobs\reports,..\..\DBC\jobs\xformshells,..\..\DBC\support\,..\datadict\classes,..\datadict\data,..\datadict\forms,..\datadict\progs,..\..\DBC\jobs\functionlibrary,..\..\DBC\jobs\functionlibrary\extracts,..\..\DBC\jobs\functionlibrary\conversions,..\..\DBC\jobs\functionlibrary\Parse,..\..\DBC\jobs\functionlibrary\APN,..\..\DBC\jobs\functionlibrary\Build,..\validate,..\jobcontrol\menus

IOW, when you switch from one application directory to another you don't have to worry about pathing: all subdirectories are included in set('path').