> My program USE item table once form.init(). User may scan barcode, and
> my program search the barcode from item table. Once user want to make
> payment, my program will USE creditcard table to retrieve all acceptable
> credit card records. VFP show me "alias creditcard is not found!".
> I never change the path ot directory in my program. How come it fail
> to get the file? If I close my program and do the same thing again,
> it work fine.

when you close your program and run it again, are you going through
all the same steps again ? check to see when you open one of your
other tables that you are not opening it in the same work area in
which CREDITCARD was opened (which would in effect "close" the
CREDITCARD alias).