>hi there!!!
>I work in a firm where our program is dependant on the financial year. So, our tables are also stored in folders named
>after the ongoing financial year i.e., 2000-2001,2001-2002 etc. After the end of the last year, we had to carry over to
>the new year where all tables in the new folder were zapped. Now, a situation has arisen where I require some of my
>programs to take data from the current folder(2001-2002) as well as the previous folder(2000-2001). But the tables
>have the same name in both the folders. How do I accomplish this objective?


Just use the tables with an alias so that they are clearly identified:

USE \2000-2001\MyData ALIAS MyData00 IN 0
USE \2001-2002\MyData ALIAS MyData01 IN 0

You now have both tables in use, one with a reference alias MyData00, the other MyData01. Since they have unique aliases, they can both be open at the same time and dealt with distinctly.