>Tim,
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>good that you solved it!
>
>But it reminds me of the worst bug (IMHO) that I experienced in FPW, and I thought I would take the opportunity to relate it here in case it still exists. . .
>
>I had a table, provided to me, called 3CHAR, which was a table to de-code 3-char station names to their full names.
>As is my custom, I coded the file name as the alias on the USE statement.
>The program would work for a while after issuing this USE, accessing records and all, but later would fail trying to access the file. All USEes to "close" files were in the clean-up, so it was not being closed prematurely.
>
>Turned out that FPW did *NOT* like the first character of an alias being a numeric. Never complained, but did seem to ignore it.

Wow, sounds like you were on your own in figuring that one out.