>We found the cause of the problem. The PATCH table was already open and yet it gave us an ambiguous error message. Case closed.
Confusing, indeed.
In this case, as an alternative to closing the table, you can also issue
USE...AGAIN.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
