In addition to the other comments, use _TALLY in stead of RECCOUNT() whenever possible!

>I select a bunch of records into a cursor, as following:
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>select * from mytable where mytable.myfld='ABC' into cursor MYCURS
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>The message shows that, say 176 records selected. Yet when I do:
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>? reccount("MYCURS")
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>it returns total number of records in MYTABLE.
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>What am I missing?
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>Thank you.