>>Howz about using the NOFILTER clause of the select to garuntee the disk presence of a result.
Glad you got what you needed - My mistake though NOFILTER does not garuntee a disk presence. (a file) it does however garuntee that a USE (DBF('XXX')) will
work and it always creates an independent result set ( NO use again!)
Jon
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