It is now necessary to enable the Hot Link.

Now you can use the Hot Link Tool to link the Dbase file to any point in your View. You can link other Dbase files to different records in the point theme by repeating the procedure with each of the Dbase files.

This Tip and many others can be found at the following ESRI FAQ Page

AutoCAD 2000 Tip - Using ArcView Files in AutoCAD Map 2000
Make sure that the ArcView shape/dbf files are named to 8.3 conventions and that there are no dashes in the name. Replace the dash (-) with an underscore (_). Map does not like dashes with dbf files although ArcView doesn't care.

More Autodesk Product FAQs are available Here

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