>What's the real name of the table? If the table name includes illegal characters than alias it's open under will not be the same as table name.

AFAIK the real name of the table doesn't include any illegal character (BTW what are those illegal characters). I have included a .h file in the program with the fullpath to a table :

#define unitlinked "h:\general\2004\blryear.dbf"

In the program I do then :

use unitlinked in 0 alias "policy"
use reinsurance in 0
select policy && doesn't select table

So my previous post wasn't complete....sorry for that.




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>>use mytable in 0
>>use mytable1 in 0
>>select mytable && doesn't select table
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>>I perform some indexing after select mytable on the table,but I get an error that ther is no table open in the current workarea, when I let the program stop after select mytable, indeed in the browswer window mytable is not selected.
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