Ah, gee, that's what I get for keepin' my nose to the grindstone! :-)
What a freaky thing. Thanks for the info.

If that is Mark's case, then I suppose it would make sense that the second cursor would have odd side-effects. In any case, the whole scenario seems, well, shaky, to be honest.

>Nancy,
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>This may or may not be the answer. If it is, Mark left out something in his list. In a discussion we had about INDEX on a few days ago, we discovered (to my surprise) that if you used INDEX ON Expr TAG Expr OF CdxFile, and named a non-structural CdxFile in which to create the index, you actually did not have to have the table open exclusive!
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