A stab in the dark. Is your cursor, cDl_dfltl, merely filtered versions of the underlying DBF, Deal , created with an SQL SELECT command? If so, the actual DBF is in use in the cursor work area, not a separate temporary table. You can easily tell by checking DBF('cDl_dfltl'). If it returns a full path to Deal.DBF instead of a temporary table, you will know that you are using a filtered version of the underlying DBF. If so, just add the NOFILTER keyword to your SQL SELECT statement to insure that a new temporary table is used for the cursor.

>The following code is blanking a good record in a dbf when it should be blanking a single record in a cursor. This is during a retrieve to reload the cursors with previously saved information.
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> SELECT Dl_Dfltl
> LOCATE FOR d_code = cDeal.d_code
> IF FOUND()
> SCATTER MEMVAR
> SELECT cDl_Dfltl
> GATHER MEMVAR
> ELSE
> SELECT cDl_Dfltl
> GO TOP
> WAIT WINDOW "Saved Copy of Lease Template Not Found" TIMEOUT 3
> BLANK
> ENDIF
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>Deal is an unrelated dbf in work area 13
>Dl_Dfltl is a dbf
>cDeal and cDl_dfltl are cursors that match the corresponding named dbf's.
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>If the saved copy of lease template is not found, I want to blank the only record in cDl_dfltl. There is only one record in it, but this code Blanks the current record in the Deal dbf. I have tried a Scatter Memvar Blank and then a Gather Memvar, but it doesn't work. If I comment out the "BLANK" command, the Deal record is not blanked, but the cDl_dfltl record is not touched either.
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>BTW: I put the Go Top in there because sometimes, I do a Replace on the cursors without it and nothing is updated. Go Top insures that I am sitting on the single record in that cursor.
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>I hope someone can help me with this. Thanks...Tim