>>>I am probably missing something very simple (I guess too many hours working today <g>). Here is the situation:
>>>
>>>

>>>* Cursor MyCursor is empty
>>>* Table  MyTable has field PK. The first record of MyTable PK is 5
>>>* Other record in MyTable have different values of PK (1,2,etc).
>>>* The following command is supposed to append records...
>>>select MyCursor
>>>append from MyTable for MyTable.Pk = nPk
>>>* but the above works only if nPk is = 5 (that is, the value in the
>>>* first record of MyTable. If I try any other value of nPk, no
>>>* records are appended to MyCursor
>>>

>>>
>>>What am I missing?
>>>
>>>Thank you.
>>
>>this doesn't work because APPEND FROM read file's data,
>>help doc is:
>>APPEND FROM FileName
>>
>>not from an alias, then it can't see SET FILTER, SE KEY , INDEX ...
>>Every reference on the FOR clause it is applied to the alias,
>>and it is constant because the alias record pointer don't change
>>during the APPEND execution.
>>
>>Example,
>>

>>CREATE CURSOR byby (aa i)
>>ON ERROR ? MESSAGE(),"command: ",MESSAGE(1)
>>APPEND FROM DBF("byby")
>>
>>* error
>>APPEND FROM byby
>>

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>
>Fabio,
>
>It may give an error on cursors, but it will not if MyTable.dbf happens to exist in the path
>eg, if MyTable is in the database and the PATH includes databasepath
>
>then ... help file ...
>
>Arguments
>
>FileName
>
>Specifies the name of the file to append from. If you don't include a file name extension, a Visual FoxPro table and a default extension .dbf is assumed. If you are appending from a Visual FoxPro table, records in the table that are marked for deletion are appended, regardless of the SET DELETED setting.
>
>
>
>UPDATE
>
>It even translates the long tablename in the database to the short name on the disk

of course.