Nadya,
Once you open a file, you can get the filename of the underlying file with function DBF().
? justext(dbf())
Is this what you need?
Hilmar.
>Hi everybody,
>
>I have a simple problem, but haven't found a simple solution so far. I want to create two files with the same name. One would have DBF extension, another would have LOG extension. Both are tables and I need to use them in the same program. I
>
> select ... into (m.lcNewFile)
> select juststem(m.lcNewFile)
> append from ...
>
> I also do create table free (m.lcNewLogFile) ...
>
> I need to select it and append records into it. How can I distingush them? Is there the only way to close both and re-open under different aliases?
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