Ed,

An approach I used (with smaller-sized cursors) would be to copy the records into a temporary (non-grid) table, do a ZAP (instead of a PACK), then copy these back into the original cursor. I discovered in a few cases, an approach like this did not generate the Illegal Operation with temp relationships in force.

I wouldn't have thought about doing the same for a large table though (ala advice to Pascal)

Kenneth.


>Yes, it's really risky to employ both dynamic grid and temp relationships.
>
>>Ed,
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>>Some additions to this. I had temporary Relationships in force on the grid, when the PACK was issued, I got an Illegal Operation.
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>>Kenneth.
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>>>>Is there a way to pack a table in the Data Environment that is currently used by a grid as its record source?
>>>>
>>>>When I tried to do it, I was able to pack it, but then, even after adding some records to the table, my grid would become all white, not showing anything.
>>>
>>>It's possible, but takes some additional coding: basically, you should restore grid settings (first of all, recordsource and column.controlsources) after PACKing.
>>>Why do you need in this functionality? Usually, SET DELETED ON is sufficient.