>>>>>Hi All:
>>>>>
>>>>>I always thought that you cannot APPEND FROM a table that is in USE. If this is true, would the following work:
>>>>>
>>>>>

>>>>>select * ;
>>>>>from table1 ;
>>>>>into cursor curTest
>>>>>
>>>>>lcDbf = dbf(curTest)
>>>>>
>>>>>USE IN curTest
>>>>>
>>>>>use table2
>>>>>APPEND FROM (lcDbf)
>>>>>

>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>>Yossi
>>>>
>>>>No it won't work, because you close the cursor.
>>>>When you close it the table behind disappears.
>>>>But this should work:
>>>>

>>>>select * ;
>>>>from table1 ;
>>>>into cursor curTest
>>>>
>>>>lcDbf = dbf(curTest)
>>>>
>>>>use table2
>>>>APPEND FROM (lcDbf)
>>>>

>>>
>>>But if I make changes to the data in the cursor, how can I be sure that all the changes have been flushed to the DBF on the disk?
>>
>>The physical file on disk may not exists at all.
>
>Thanks


O, one more thing.
When you try to do thing like this make sure that you didn't have filtered view instead of cursor.
Not sure if on VFP5 there is NOFILTER, if there is not just add one more field to this cursor.

...
select *, 1 AS NoMatter ;
from table1 ;
into cursor curTest
...