You're welcome.

>Ah, how simple that was....thanks Sergey!!!!!!
>
>>A cursor may not have physical presence on a disk in which case DBF() reports none-existent file name.. A query can use a cursor name directly
>>

>>	Select *, Space(5) As Lineno ;
>>From sbt_artran ;
>>Where Item != "300 " And Item != "DEL" And Item != "310" ;
>>		AND Item != "312" Order By 1,3 Into Cursor Tran Readwrite
>>