>I need to pass a cursor that resides in a form with data session set to private to another form. I know it kind of defeats the whole purpose of having a DS that's private and wanting to do this but I have the need nonetheless. I know I can't pass a whole cursor as a parameter (w/o using ADO?) but is there another way?

Sure - pass the data session ID and alias as parameters, and do something like:

LPARAMETERS nDataSessionID, cAlias
* Note - no error checking. I'd add it.
LOCAL nMyDataSessionAtStart
nMyDataSessionAtStart = SET('DATASESSION')
SET DATASESSION TO nDataSessionID
LOCAL cDBFReference
cDBFReference = DBF(cAlias)
SET DATASESSION TO nMyDataSessionAtStart
USE (cDBFReference) AGAIN SHARED IN 0 ALIAS WhatEver