For the most part, cursors are read-only. They're normally in memory only with no disk-based table used. The APPEND FROM command needs an absolute filename to work.

You can usually force a cursor to store on the hard disk by forcing a bogus field into the query: SELECT , .T. AS BogusFld...

- Gerry

>I am tyring to update a cursor by appending from another cursor. Having some difficulties, any suggestions.
>
>Jolene Dicks

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