Mike,

If you put the data directory in the SET PATH then you don't need to worry about it so much.

You are welcome, but I've only lived in Texas for 23 months so I've not yet picked up the second language. *s*

>well, not really ! One of my standard tricks is to pass the DATA DIRECTORY as a parameter to my routine PRICE = getprice("c:\customers\class1", "widget")
>so of course I end up debugging with 'set default' pointing at customers\class1 !
>
>now I can try to find a workaround !
>
>muchos gracias
>
>( hoping all texans speak spanish ? )