>why not :
>sele * from some_alias into cursor tmpCur where .f.
>
>this gives you the same in one line!

Hi Peter

I know. With readwrite clause you should get the same; proper local cursor. But somehow it just isn't !

I started in fact doing doing it at some point in the past, but then run into some strange/unexpected problems on resulting cursor
which I simply could not explain. It was one of those situation where by all logic everything should just work but for some reason it does not!

After beating my head for a while, I tried to reverse steps in terms of thinking what I did different now then what I did so many times before,
and it was exactly that switch from creating cursor from array - versus cute/elegant one line statement.

Moment I reverted back to old way - problem was gone! You can't explain it rationally (at least I can't) but this is exactly what happened. It does not happen every time you create cursor with one line sql, but problem DID occur in a worse possible
manner - which is random and without logical reason or bug in the program.

I wish I had time/skill of that Italian guy (Fabio ?) to dig deep/debug and come to the bottom of why/how it is all happening,
but since that is not the case I simply reverted back and continued down the line my old less elegant but problem-free way.
To clarify, I did NOT have field longer then 10 chars which created problem to Denis. In this case problem was something else.
What exactly I do not know, but it did happen.

I know it is just war zone anecdote, but it might help someone to look at yet another possible cause of some weird problem in similar scenario.