Such added information ALWAYS welcomed!

cheers

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>PMJI, but vfp6sp5 does have the nofilter clause, I use it a lot.
>>I've seen weird stuff like this when the alias involved is for cursor made by a Select-SQL and VFP opted to provide the result as a "filtered result set" instead of a real cursor. I don't think VFP6 has the NOFILTER clause for Select-SQL, but I believe that adding a "... .F. AS Dummy..." as a field in the SELECT clause will evade VFP's action.
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