>David,
>The examples in the Help for SELECT-SQL are quite comprehensive. You will be able to see how each of the different clauses like NOFILTER work. Although I must admit I had to get the 'USE AGAIN' to get a read-write cursor from UT when I did my first VFP3 project. We just post it again every week or so for the next person :-)

I figured this would be a common 'newby's gotcha'. Seems like a good candidate for a FAQ...maybe it already is one...though I looked and couldn't find it.

As I said, the whole area of VFP's handling of cursors does not seem to be documented in any regular way which is too bad since they seem to be a useful object with which to manipulate temporary sets of records.

Thanks for being patient with us 'next persons'