I think I saw a topic on the similar problem today, but could not find it. Anyway, if this would not work, you may want to use
select 0
create cursor UpdCursor (field1 C(10), etc.)

This would work 100%.

>I read in a book that this lines
>

>SELECT * FROM clients INTO CURSOR junk NOFILTER
>USE DBF ('junk') AGAIN IN 0 ALIAS UpdCursor
>

>can be replaced by this line
>

>SELECT * FROM clients INTO CURSOR UpdCursor READWRITE
>

>i thry this last code line and put it in Load events of the form
>and puted these values in the grid
>

>record source = UpdCursor
>record sourcetype = 1. Alias
>

>and in other window wtih a browse froma file i change some data
>but the changes are not refreshed in the grid...then in waht sense
>is READWIRTE that cursor ???'
>after that i tried to referesh gird by put a button in the form to refresh
>the grid and did not works either
>what can i do?