Turns out the missing fields were memo fields, and I wasn't using the MEMO keyword because I didn't think I had memo fields. The cursor in question is created on the fly based on a table description from MySQL...and my field mappings make varchars into memos. Somebody used varchars for fields that were supposed to be text, so I ended up with unexpected memos.

Amazing what a browse window can reveal :P

Thanks for the replies.



>Did you use MEMO clause? W/o it MEMOs will not be scattered.
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>>I'm having a problem with SCATTER on a certain table, available at www.databar.com/junk.zip.
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>>Whether I do SCATTER MEMVAR or SCATTER name, it does not create variables for all of the fields in the table. The table was created from a cursor that was returned from a passthrough query.
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>>It seems like the code that produced this used to work. I recently put VFP9 SP1 on, but I uninstalled and reinstalled VFP without it, but the problem remains.
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>>Anybody know why this might be happening?
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>>TIA