>>>>hello everybody.
>>>>
>>>>ok, i got a problem here i can't figure out. i get an error on the index command "File must be opened exclusive".
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>>>Maybe your select is 100% optimize just opening up the original table again. I would stop after the select and see what DBF() returns.
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>>
>>hello Chuck.
>>
>>thanks for your reply, please see my message i just posted.
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>You can open up the cursor exclusive again with out a problem. I still think the select is 100% optimize and your cursor is your original table of "invloc" just opened up again and filtered down.


well, i don't know. here is what i just tried (to re-open the curer exclusivly) and it throughs an error (file c:\temp\17e665.tmp not found). so i am sure the querry result is a seperate table/file

		USE DBF(m.cSourceCursor) ALIAS (m.cTargetCursor) AGAIN
		USE IN (m.cSourceCursor)
		IF TYPE("m.cUserType") = "C" .AND. UPPER(m.cUserType) = "EXCL"
			USE DBF(m.cTargetCursor) ALIAS (m.cTargetCursor) EXCL
		ENDIF