Hi Koen,

A cursor cannot change to read only by itself. Maybe it's recreated somewhere?

See Re: Create cursor with sql *not* read-only Message #818486 and Re: Index (CDX) a SQL - Cursor, File Read-Only Message #568981

BTW, READWRITE assumes NOFILTER so thre's no need to specify them both.

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>could you also please be so kind as to provide me with the syntax for
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>MakeMyCursorReadwrite()
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>and by the way. thanks for pointing me to isreadonly(), it indeed shows .F. although I created the cursor with "readwrite nofilter" :( :( s*t