>John,
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>>>consider making Form2 a Public datasession and it should be able to bind to any cusror or table created in Form1.
>You're right, John. I tried it on 2 ad hoc forms and it works.
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>However, I worked around the problem yesterday by concatenating the records into a null-delimited string and passing over. The records are small (max 20) and it fits inside a long string. I've been with Private DS forms all over the place and it's like a culture/habit - it makes workarea handling simplified.
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>I also observed that if you try find the file (say, "11954824.TMP") under \Windows\System (or the TMP directory), it does not exist physically!

So the theory which says that NOFILTER should force it to exist... actually doesn't come into practice.