>Well, that is the power of vfp, even 5 works fine for us. It's really a bureacratic company where I work now, so an upgrade is not on our short term to do list .
>
>>>>Yes,
>>>>Upgrade to VFP9 :-)
>>>Well, this is no option for us at this moment.
>>>
>>>>In VFP6 - no, you should use cursors.
>>>
>>>I have made a mistake with the version, it should be vfp 5 but of course the same problem.
>>>
>>>I used cursors, but this is so slow... Is there a trick to speed this up?
>>
>>VFP5????????
>>WOW!
>>That is the buggiest version of VFP I used (Sergey pointed me that VFP3 was the one, but I never used it)
>>So UPGRADE!
>>In VFP9 only report engine enhancements worth every cent you pay for it.

Then you stick with cursors. Could you post what you used so far just to see if there is a way to speed it?