>I often have to work with 2 DBCs with the same name.
>For example my test database and my live database.
>
>If I want to zap the tables in my test DBC and append into them from the live DBC I have to use the full path to the live table.
>
>Is there someway to set an alias to DBC different from its name?

You could also delete the tables from the test DBC and add them from the live like so:

Select * From d:\myLive\myDBC!myTable 
  Into DBF myTable 
  Database d:\myTest\myDBC

This from the test DBC directory. HTH