>>I'm looking for a routine that can convert a cursor into a single string and back. See my post named "Do I need/can I use ADO" for more detail. I think I remember someone stated the existance of such routines here on UT ...
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>I don't understand the base question, however, if what you're looking to do is move between a VFP cursor and an ADO RecordSet, download VFPCOM from the microsoft Web site msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/downloads; VFPCOM is an automation engine that provides methods to freely convert between VFP cursors and ADO recordxsets, and also provides a means to bind VFP code to the events of ActiveX controls and OLE Automation Servers. It works with both VFP5 and VFP6.

If VFPCOM allows to convert in both directions cursors>ADO and from ADO back to cursors and on top of that an VFP automation server can return an ADO record set to a client my problem is solved ...