In VFP you can say that about query result cursors.

SELECT ... INTO CURSOR foo

The cursor created by CREATE CURSOR command is rather a temp table than a cursor in a given sense.

>I have then set the rowsource to operator_cur, this works quite well, but someone here has told me this isn;t very good as it doesn't follow the conventions of other languages ie cursors are always thought to be readonly, what are your thoughts ???????