>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 :-)

At least once a week :) I'm hoping eventually they'll incorporate a built-in way to do this, kind of like

INTO CURSOR mycursor NOFILTER

but instead something like:

INTO CURSOR mycursor WRITEABLE

with an inherent NOFILTER...