Ha David,

That's why I sad "the closest ....". :)
You can get what you want if you issue this command at the beginning of the app where there are no tables open or use code below.

oMA = CREATEOBJECT("MaxArea")
Select( Select(1)) 
? Select()
USE prod
? Select(1), oMA.GetMaxArea()
RETURN

DEFINE CLASS MaxArea AS Session
FUNCTION GetMaxArea()
RETURN Select(1)
ENDFUNC 
ENDDEFINE

>Sergey,
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>Thanks. Yes I know of that one, but if say:
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>select 255
>use mytable
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>Then select(1) will return 254, when really I want 255, or whatever the max value really is. So, it sounds like what I'm looking for doesn't exist.
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>>The closest one is SELECT(1) that returns the highest-numbered unused work area.
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