Sorry Tore, I misstated the problem - there are no errors on the other hand it has no visible effect
I assumed the query table would open up to allow edit after the readwrite command.


>That should work. If not, please show the exact select statement you tried.
>
>>Thanks Al - it was the syntax I was having problem with -you had mentioned adding it to the final command thus
>>

>>INTO CURSOR Email READWRITE 
>>

>>which didn't work for me. - I was wondering if that was what you meant.
>>
>>k
>>
>>>READWRITE makes the Email cursor (the result of the SELECT query) act like a table. You can add or delete rows, change the existing contents etc. If you don't include READWRITE the cursor is read-only.
>>>
>>>>thanks again Al. Works very smoothly now.
>>>>
>>>>re the read write - not quite there yet, are you saying this would open the query table and allow input?
>>>>INTO CURSOR Email readwrite &&& not working ---- is that what you meant??
>>>>
>>>>k
>>>>
>>>>>>I am getting an error read on the second line - anyone know why? tnx k
>>>>>>

>>>>>>CREATE CURSOR email (email C(40))
>>>>>>INSERT INTO Email (Email)     &&&  syntax error
>>>>>>select email from myDbf1 ;
>>>>>>UNION ;
>>>>>>SELECT email from myDBF2;
>>>>>>UNION ;
>>>>>>SELECT email from myDBF3;
>>>>>>UNION ;
>>>>>>SELECT email from myDBF4
>>>>>>

>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>UNION eliminates duplicates so the resulting cursor will have all unique emails from your 4 DBFs.
>>>>>
>>>>>There are only supposed to be 2 commands in what you've shown; there should be a semicolon at the end of the 2nd line.
>>>>>
>>>>>You don't have to create the cursor in advance - a SQL SELECT can do it for you:
>>>>>

>>>>>SELECT email from myDBF1 ;
>>>>>UNION ;
>>>>>SELECT email from myDBF2 ;
>>>>>UNION ;
>>>>>SELECT email from myDBF3 ;
>>>>>UNION ;
>>>>>SELECT email from myDBF4 ;
>>>>>INTO CURSOR Email
>>>>>* if you need a read-write cursor you can add READWRITE to the very end of the above command
>>>>>