You don't need to be sure the cursor is actually written on disk. It works even if it's in memory. Or am I wrong?

Vlad

>The first thing you need to do is to make sure FoxPro creates the cursor as a disk file rather than just a filter on your existing table. You can do this by adding a dummy field like this:
>

>SELECT *, ' ' AS Dummy ;
>  FROM mytable ;
>  WHERE mycondition ;
>  INTO CURSOR mycursor
>

>You don't need to do this when your SELECT involves a join, because a join also forces FoxPro to create a disk file. To make mycursor writeable do this:
>

>USE DBF('mycursor') AGAIN IN 0 ALIAS mycursor2

>mycursor2 is now writeable.
>
>In VFP 5.0 you can put the NOFILTER keyword after the name of your cursor to tell VFP that you want it to create a file.