>>Hi Satya -
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>>Interesting reason for the lack of being able to find the physical file right away....glad it's resolved.
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>It's absolutely not solved. I've checked a lot in my machine (windows 98, VFP 5.0 Sp3). After the select clause nofilter file(dbf("mycursor")) returns .f. and in the temp folder nothing happens. One or two times has happening same as Satya (cursor number + 1) but now no more. More ideas? Have i the only machine where this occurs? Noone has checked this?

You open the explorer and check for file (cursor number + 1), and then refresh it with, F5. some 2 or 3 times. Sure You see the cursor number file.
It is just refreshing problem. Note also that, thought it shows cursor number file, it also creates other files eg: cursor number + 1 .

I don't think we should go much deeper, as VFP doesnot show any problems with Cursors.