Hi Margaret,

An alias in FoxPro cannot start with digit but your table name starts with one. When FoxPro opens table with name that starts with a digit, it assigns some alias to it (usualy "W" plus the number of work area). Make sure that when you generate temp file name, that it starts with a letter or "_" (underscore).

>URGENT. After a recompile last week I have a whole project that is bombing on methods that haven't been changed. In many methods I have a variable or lparameter which holds a file name, then I use the file or select the file using the variable. Possibly I changed an evirnoment setting when I recompiled the project? I know with VFP6 I would have had to assign an alias to make the code below work. But in VFP7, until this morning, I have been able to select the files using the variable.
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>In the example below the method takes the file passed in, adds some new fields, then overwrites the passed in file with the modified file.
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>LPARAMETERS tcfile1, tcType, tdDate
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>SELECT *, ;
>            WEEK(dreceived,1,2) AS iWeek, ;
>            YEAR(dreceived) AS iYear,  ;
>            ((YEAR(dreceived)*100) + ;
>            WEEK(dreceived,1,2))AS iYearWeek, ;
>            tdDate AS dEndWeek ;
>            FROM (tcfile1) ;
>            INTO CURSOR xNewFile
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>USE IN (tcfile1)  ---- Program bombs here with error message "Alias '000HWF9Q' is not found."
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>SELECT xNewFile
>COPY TO (tcfile1)
>USE IN xNewFile
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