Thanks Sergey and Borislav

Worked great!

Bob


>>I want to create a cursor, add a blank row, set an order, and have that row appear at the top.
>>
>>

select T1.* from T1 order by T1.cCharField into cursor T2 
>>select T2
>>append blank
>>brow

>>append blank generates "Cannot update the cursor T2 since it is read-only."
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>>It appears that I nead to create a NOT read-only cursor, but can't find the trick. Also, that blank line is added after the "order by" so I suspect that it would be at the bottom, even if I could add it. I could add the row to T1 first, but T1 is a read-only cursor too, that I also created with a select statement.
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>>Bob
>
>use READWRITE clause at the end of the SELECT:
>

>select T1.* from T1 order by T1.cCharField into cursor T2 READWRITE
>select T2
>append blank
>brow