>The cursors generated by a select are read only. Can this be changed. I really need a cursor, but I would like it to be writable.
>Thanks

There are few workarounds:
1. You still run
SELECT ... INTO Cursor curReadOnly NOFILTER
and then
USE (DBF()) IN 0 AGAIN ALIAS curReadWrite
2. You prepare cursor first:
CREATE CURSOR curReadWrite ....
run SELECT ... INTO ARRAY ...
and INSERT into curReadWrite From Array ...
3. The same as 2, but you SELECT ... INTO Cursor ...
and APPEND FROM (dbf())