>Nope. I want to write back to the original table. Like I would if I were using a view. The "people" table in the above example. ???
>

*
*	From BostonComputerNewsNetwork @NJ Fox-user 6-22-94
*+
*PURPOSE:
*	To Make SQL read-only cursor into R/W cursor
*	Must be real file not filtered view
*
*SYNTAX:
*	m.retstat = mkcursrw(m.cn) 
*PARAMETERS:
*	m.cn		-(C)	Cursor alias name to be made read/writable.
*
*RETURNS:
*	m.retstat	-(L)	.t. made the read-only cursor to R/W cursor.
*						.f. the cursor alias name does not correspend
*						to a cursor.
*REMARKS:
*SEE ALSO:
*-
*
FUNCTION mkcursrw
PARAMETER m.cn
PRIVATE m.cf, m.retstat
m.cf = DBF(m.cn)
IF ".TMP"=RIGHT(m.cf,4)
  USE (m.cf) AGAIN IN 0 ALIAS dummycname
  USE IN (m.cn)
  USE (m.cf) AGAIN IN 0 ALIAS (m.cn)
  USE IN dummycname
  SELECT (m.cn)
  m.retstat = .t.
ELSE
  m.retstat = .f.
ENDIF
RETURN m.retstat
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