>>>>To be honest, I've lost what was the problem :)
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>>>MY PROBLEM was that after issue a select clause 'into cursor xxx nofilter', file(dbf("xxx")) returns .f. and in the temp folder does occurs nothing. But if you issue 'use (dbf("xxx")) in 0 again...' that works. What's hapening? I've tested that in my machine a lot (Windows 98, VFP 5.0 SP3)
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>>It seemed to me, that FILE() doesn't work properly, but DBF(), which is more important, works Ok.
>Hidy Ed,
>Yes you're so right ! DBF() is more reliable than file(). I can make file() return .t. when there never exists that file !
>Cetin

But in the case we're talking of, dbf() is not working: dbf("mycursor") is returning c:\windows\temp\xxxxxx.tmp (x are numbers of course) and this file does not exists.