>>And I have a second question: in the chance that there was a free table in the current directory with the same name as a view in the current database, which would be opened by USE xxx?
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>My guess would be the view, but this is easy enough to test. Create a view with the same name as a free table and open the DBC. After your USE command, look at the DBF() of the alias. That will tell you which one was opened.

Thanks Barbara. The test confirms your hunch. Is there any chance that some circumstances might exist that provide an exception? Or, is there any documentation that indicates this is reliable?

Alex