>Hi Cetin,
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>>>weirdness number 2: A Select out of DBF('curTest1') triggers a file blablabla.tmp not found error while an Append from DBF('curTest1') works fine?
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>>In second "weirdness" you would directly select from curTest1 not dbf("curtest1").
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>I still don't know why the select * from DBF('curTest1') triggers a "blablabla.tmp not found" while the Append from DBF('CurTest1') works fine. I know I can do a select * from curTest1 but why does the DBF() function trigger the error here?
Mark,
You're right in that but I really don't understand it too. Also file() returns .f. hence the file is there. It has to do something with file allocation and handles as I could "sense" but that's all. Native fox commands work but not select, file() etc. All I can assure it's a true cursor and exist on disk as any other cursor.
More to it :

select * from myTable nofilter into cursor myCursor
use dbf("myCursor") in 0 again alias myCursor1
copy to (getenv("temp")+"\dellater.tmp")
select * from (getenv("temp")+"\dellater.tmp")

So it's not really its path nor extension.
Cetin