>Thank you Erik - it is a path problem. Your suggestion saved me a lot of trial and error.
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>I suppose it is necessary to run the .exe in the directory it was compiled in since the SET PATH TO command seems to work only at design time.

If the app is looking for dbfs, it's best to hardcode the entire path or put the path in an ini file or the registry, and then read it at runtime. Either way, your USE command should either be issued with a fully qualified path, or issued against an database that was opened with a fully qualified path.