>>Hi,
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>>When attempting to preview a report a customer is getting error:
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>>Cannot update the cursor E, since it is read-only
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>>The E in the message does not have a colon; but could it be still pointing to a letter drive?
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>>TIA.
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>I have found that the problem occurs when I try to add records from one cursor to another. That is, first the program gets records from a table (in SQL Server database) into a cursor. Then another cursor is filled from another SQL Server table. Then I try to append one cursor to another using the following code:
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>select (cCursor1)
>append from dbf("cCursor2")
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>The application gives error on the APPEND FROM .. line above. What am I doing wrong? TIA.

How was cCursor1 created, by CREATE CURSOR or as the result of a SQL SELECT command? The latter are read-only by default. An option was added at some point to let you populate the cursor as updatable.