>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?

Hi John,
Glad that David F helped out with default datasession approach. But if you really do need to pass it, just pass the DBF('cursoralias') as a parameter or set property in the other form and use it again. Remember though to create the cursor with the NOFILTER clause so that it will really have a disk presence.
HTH