>Hi Martina,
> If I understand you correctly, you're suggesting to copy the cursor to a physical file and then append from that physical file?
Yes
> If this is the suggestion, then perhaps it would be more direct to find some way to force VFP to create a physical file in the first place. I thought that is what "NOFILTER" does...

NOFILTER is not quarantee so VFP create physical file. It's depend on black box in VFP. If you use SELECT ... INTO CURSOR ... VFP can create physical file but don't need.

> Best regards, Chaim

MartinaJ