>UPDATE: again to fast to cry for help - might help if I coded a REPLACE!
>
>I get the subject error message, referring to CARDHOLDER (an ALIAS), in the following code:
>

>*--------DEBUG  DEBUG  DEBUG-----------
>IF USED() AND ALIAS()="CARDHOLDER"
>ELSE
>    set step ON
>ENDIF
>*--------DEBUG  DEBUG  DEBUG----------
>CardHolder.EqfxReport = ReturnedCreditReport  ;
>                       + CHR(13) + CHR(10)  ;  . . . there are more fields
>

>
>STEP ON does NOT happen. No where in the code is there an object named CARDHOLDER save, possibly in the data environment.
>
>Has anyone seen this before. . . know a fixup?
>
>Thanks in advance
>Jim Nelson

Jim,
Try :

IF ALIAS()="CARDHOLDER"
 wait window 'CARDHOLDER is the current alias' timeout 2
 if fsize('EqfxReport', 'CardHolder') > 0
   wait window 'CardHolder.EqfxReport exists as a field' timeout 2
 endif
ELSE
 set step ON
ENDIF
set asserts on
ASSERT (type('CARDHOLDER')='O' and !isnull(CARDHOLDER)) ;
 message 'Cardholder object is not defined'

*...

Cetin