Is there an easier way to detect if the record pointer is at the first or last record than EOF and BOF (which require I SKIP past them, causing problems).

there has to be something better that what I have - something like :

PROCEDURE myEOF
LOCAL llRet

IF .NOT. EOF()
SKIP
llRet = EOF()
SKIP -1
ELSE
llRet = .T.
ENDIF

RETURN llRet

Tim