I recently got this error when using Infopower'S QBE components. I was
"hand" building a QBE query and used table specifiers as

:alias:tablename.db

and got the above error message.

when I replaced above with

X:\path\tablename.db

It worked.

Any ideas as to what is going on? What is the implication of an
"un-opened/opened" alias?

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Jason Wallace
SL Software
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Using aliases, the user can decide where to put the datafiles. It may
be on a local or fileserver drive. The local C: drive may be full, and
the user has to put it on the D: drive. The path needs to be put in
just one place: the BDE configuration file.

Using hard coded paths: The user is stuck with the directory and drive
that the application programmer used. To put the data in a different
directory or on a different computer, wouldn't the user have to go
back to the programmer who would have to:
1. find all references in code to the data path.
2. change the path
3. recompile the app
4 install the new exe file on the user's machine

I know that these steps may not be difficult, but is there any way to
avoid recompiling?

FWIW,
Dan

But the issue was the error message not use of aliases. I just don't
understand why I get an "unopened" alias message. What does that mean?

Obviously, I pretty much guessing here, but it might help ;-]