>Peter,
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>The relationships you create oin a databse are not permanent but rahter persistent relationships. They are created by Dragging a Primary or Candidate index to any index in the target table. You can not establish a persistent relationship from index to field, only index to index.

I know that, Jim.
I even said I am working with keys .
WHat I need to know is why I can't make a permant (persistent) relationship.

Peter
I even checked the read write status of the dbc files and they are fine.

Peter