>A RECNO() funny - If you have a table and you do a locate (or skip etc) and end up at EOF() then RECNO() returns 1 more than the actual number of records. Does everyone but me know about this :)

A different funny happens with BOF(). When you are at BOF() there is no phantom record. You are actually pointed to the first record in the table -- using the active index.

CREATE CURSOR temp (f1 c(10))
INSERT INTO temp VALUES ("bbb")
INSERT INTO temp VALUES ("ccc")
INSERT INTO temp VALUES ("aaa")
INDEX ON f1 TAG f1
GO top
SKIP -1
? BOF() -------------------------->  .T.
? RECNO() ------------------------>  3
REPLACE f1 WITH "xxx"
? f1 -----------------------------> "xxx"
? BOF() --------------------------> .F.
? RECNO() ------------------------> 3

Granted I have almost never worked with BOF() but it took me a while to discover why

LOCATE FOR somecondtion
SKIP -1
IF BOF()  && Am I at top of file -- yup
  SKIP    && thought I was going to top of file but was actually going to 2nd record
ENDIF

didn't work properly