Mike,

If you don't want to do a SET PATH then you can more simply:

use (lcPath+"TheTable") in 0

without the need to do a SET DEFAULT.

>SET PATH is way2dangerous, IMO !!
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>Nasty habit of opening the WRONG pricing file, or finding an archive copy, or whatever!
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>I much prefer to paramaterize the data path and default to it, because it gets completely blown away on the next set defa, while I can safely leave my system files on the search path. ( PLUS, a same name file in DEFAULT will be found first, which is usually what I want! ) Set path additive has a habit of finding the wrong one!
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>pathing ( with complex multiple companies and directories ) isn't a good choice when you have to keep directories 1 and 3 but refresh 2, so I tend to SET DEFA to the clients, and let the system path back to the common files.
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>nice thing about the parametered path is, it works very well with those mis-behaved COM objects that seem to fire up in a different directory every time you install them !