Your syntax is correct, so I something else must be wrong. Do you use long field names by any chance? And are you sure Mycursor1 is readwrite?

>I am having a problem doing an APPEND FROM from an SQL cursor. The code looks like this:
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>SELECT [blah blah blah] INTO CURSOR MyCursor2 NOFILTER
>SELECT MyCursor1 && this is an SQL cursor, not a table
>APPEND FROM DBF("MyCursor2")
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>This failed with the message "File '[fullpath file name].tmp' does not exist".
>This happens even though I looked in the DataSession window and found the cursor (MyCursor2).
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>This code also fails: APPEND FROM DBF(ALIAS("MyCursor2"))
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>However, very strangely, if I execute the code "Select MyCursor2", it works!
>Any ideas?
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>BTW, the SQL Select that created MyCursor2 includes a GROUP BY clause.
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>I have a workaround: I select the cursor MyCursor2, scan through it, and copy it row by row into MyCursor1. This works, but I would like to use the APPEND FROM if possible.
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>It's very perplexing. Thanks for any help.