Hi Mike

>Try this instead...
>
>select ... FROM DBF(lcVN) where !deleted()

Wow, what happened? Just removing the DBC name made it to work.

Though I am sorry the FROM DBF(lcVN) did not work (in this case atleast), but this did FROM (lcVN) instead of FROM (THIS.cDBCName + "!" + lcVN)

Thanks a lot, but what can be the explanation between the two.