Subject User BDE Alias From Ketan G <ketan_gondhalekar@aol.com> Date Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:28:00 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Hi Folks, I am trying to access a local table using a User BDE Alias. These settings were put in the Plus.ini file and the alias shows up correctly when dBase is started. [UserBDEAliases] 5=SomeAlias (there are 4 already present) ... [SomeAlias] Driver=DBASE Options=PATH:c:\somefolder The "somefolder" above contains a single table eg. "abc.dbf", and these commands within dBase result in the following: open database SomeAlias (no error) select * from abc (I get a message saying "abc.dbf" is not found in the folder "c:\tempfolder". From the [Directories] section in the Plus.ini file, I realized that this is the folder marked "Current=n", but I am confused. If the alias contains the path, why is the table not being found in the right place and why is the "current" folder being searched? Maybe I am missing something simple, any help would be nice. Ketan