>>>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.
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>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 ...

VFPCOM can convert both ways - two methods, one goes rs->cursor, the other cursor->rs. AFAIK, though, there's no way to create an RS directly within VFP; you might want to look at John Petersen's Whitepaper on VFP and ADO. XML might be a better way to approach the problem.