Hi Paul,

Yes, I realized this in my testing on vfp6. Do you happen to know the limits in the various versions of foxpro? And do you happen to know when select(1) was introduced to the language? Do you know when aused() was introduced?

Thanks.

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>SELECT(1) returns the highest numbered unused workarea, which in VFP is a staggering 32767.
>USE ... IN SELECT(1) will open a table in the highest unused workarea.
>A following SELECT(1) returns 32766 because 32767 is in use.