>So............Is there a simple way to copy a cursor from one datasession to another?
>
>You could create an invisible form with a private datasession and use CURSORTOXML to create an XML file that you could pass to the form's INIT() and them use XMLTOCURSOR() to re-constitute the cursor inside the invisible form.

Thanks for this idea.
What I wound up doing is

lnCurSessionId = this.DataSessionId 
LOCAL oTempDS
oTempDS = CREATEOBJECT("session")
SET DATASESSION TO oTempDS.datasessionid
.
.
=CURSORTOXML("myCursor","lcCurData")
otempDS = .null.
SET DATASESSION TO lnCurSessionId
=XMLTOCURSOR(lcCurData,"myCursor")
RETURN "myCursor"    && function is designed to return name of cursor it created

Any suggestions for improvement are welcome

.....Rich