>use myTable
>scatter to myArray blank
>display
>
>When I do the 'display' command, I see the the field names displayed on the
>background of vfp and below it, I see (in the same format as the fields), the
>contents of the first record in table myTable.

What you're DISPLAYing here is the first record in the table. To see the array, try DISPLAY MEMO LIKE myArray.