Michelle,
Assuming your cursor is called mycursor, this should work:
USE DBF('mycursor') AGAIN IN 0 ALIAS mycursor2
Also, you need to make sure that you have an actual dbf and not just a filter of your original table. You can do that using the NOFILTER clause of SELECT:
SELECT * FROM mytable INTO CURSOR mycursor NOFILTER
>Am I using the correct syntax for this trick?
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>It keeps telling me it can't find what I'm assuming is the temp file for the cursor. It created it; why can't it find it? I'd really like to avoid using actual tables.
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>I wish SELECT cursors were writable to begin with.
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>Thanks,
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>Michelle