>>>I think someone ask this before , but once you get your cursor
>>>after a " Select fields, into cursor Mycursorx', can I change
>>>that cursor (Mycursor) structure somehow, or it is Read-Only
>>>always...
>>>
>>>Mark Oliva
>>
>>Mark,
>>
>>Before you select into your cursor, create the cursor with CREATE CURSOR... The cursor will then be read/write. I have never tried modifying the structure of of cursor after it is created, but I see no reason you could not.
>>
>>regards,
>
>Any time you SELECT...INTO CURSOR, the resulting cursor is read-only, no matter what you do before hand. You can fake it out by USE DBF('thatcursor') ALIAS rwcursor into making a R/W cursor. Your SELECT statement must not be a "filtered-view" so use the NOFILTER clause in your SELECT.

Fred,

you're right. I was thinking of views. Oh well.

regards,