Sorry I did not test it, but thought I used it before.
Yes, for me it worked in FoxPro2.5 for Dos too and does not work in VFP6.
Now I see that dbf() returns the entire path of the dbf. However FoxPro2.5 ignores it and uses alias. Vfp6 still want to use the entire path.

Regards

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Yuri,

Specifying an alias makes no difference.

Did you delete/remove the original table? If it is in your path, VFP will find it and the SELECT SQL will work, but if the original file is deleted/moved/renamed (i.e. the only copy is the one build into the .app file), the SELECT SQL will fail with error message: "File 'testtable.dbf' is not found". However, you can still view the table, select() it, browse it, scan it, etc.

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>It seems your puzzle is solved when:
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>use testtable alias testtable
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>Regards