>>>>
>>>>Then just do pre-processing on your cursor instead. May be it would be quicker.
>>>
>>>OK, I'll try.
>>>However, is there a way to embed a function in a VFP-8 report?
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Ed
>>
>>Nope.
>>But I am not so sure that the function slows down you report so much.
>>Could you try the report w/o the function? Just put something in that field.
>
>I already did it.
>The application was created initially and remains in very old style of D-base and FP-Dos with non-relational database and sophisticated procedures.
>Instead of creating cursor and running report, this application goes through many DOS-based utilities to open about 20 tables, set relations between them, copy necessary data to a new table, indexing table, and so on...
>
>Thank you for help
>
>Ed

Something that could be done with one or more SQL Selects. I love VFP :-)