>>>>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,

Jim, no problem. At first I thought you had a neat trick to create a R/W SQL cursor. I'm always looking for new thingies to try, especially if they solve some sort of thorny problem!