>Todd,
>What does ferror() return ?
>Still I see typos (?) in paths and still believe you're passing wrong path >info to fopen().
>Cetin

ImportFileLnsCurrent = "\\dev\backporch\imp_tabs\w52_lns"
Handle = FOPEN(ImportFileLnsCurrent + ".dbf",12)
a =ferror()
? a

returns 5. (Access Denied)

Then I type the following and it lets me use the table.

use "\\dev\backporch\imp_tabs\w52_lns"