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From: timk@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn)
Subject: Re: Clipper 'S87 TYPE MISMATCH
Organization: TDK Consulting Services
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 91 02:41:27 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.024127.633@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca>
Keywords: TYPE MISMATCH
References: <1991Jan28.125745.19241@pegasus.com> <1991Jan28.233729.10049@micor.OCUnix.On.Ca> <1991Jan30.094848.6304@pegasus.com>

In article <1991Jan30.094848.6304@pegasus.com> tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) writes:
>In article <1991Jan28.233729.10049@micor.OCUnix.On.Ca> mcormier@micor.OCUnix.On.Ca (Michel B. Cormier) writes:
>>
>>However, I still don't understand why the SELECT 8 was working even with
>>the file being closed... Am I missing something???
>>
>Michel,  Just luck I guess... obviously SELECT 8 is impervious to the 
>missing ALIAS problem but why the file was opened there ... 

the reason "Select 8" works is that doing so gets you work area #8, which 
doesn't look for a database alias. 

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