>There is a relatively simple method to fix points being quished
>against an imaginary line when combining tables.
>
>In MI 5.5 there is a mapbasic utility that enables you to change
>the bounds (or extents) of any table. Make the bounds large enough
>to encompass both tables you are trying to combine.

Is that the CoordSys Bounds tool? Thanks for the pointer, at least
it's a work around (not very easy to use if you have a lot of tables
to combine tho').

>If you have MI 5.0 or before then export the table to a MIF file
>and manually change the bounds in the MIF in any text editor. 
>Once again make the bounds (that is I think the bottom LH and top 
>RH corners) at least beyond the limits of the tables concerned.

This approach might work better for my situation (perl is wonderful
for text regex/replace processing). Thanks for the idea.

cheers,

-matt
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