>>I'm trying to remove the deleted records from a table in my program. When I try to pack the table using code in my program it doesn't work (and I get no error messages) but when I use the same command at the command line it works.
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>>What's the trick to packing a table in a program? I've tried adding the table to the data environment of my form and making it exclusive, but that doesn't seem to work.
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>>Jeff
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>I just use the table exclusive and pack...have you tried running the code outside of a form taht has the table in the data environment?
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>Joe

Are you really in the current table ?
Use:
SELECT yourtable
PACK

May be your try to pack with a buffering table. If your table is buffered, use TABLEUPDATE to commit or TABLEREVERT to rollback then open again the source table and pack it.