>Thanks Nick...that makes perfect sense. However, when I do that the cursor opens up "read only." I've tried numerous ways to change this but I'm still not having much luck. Do you know how I can change the "read only" status of the cursor?
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>Thanks again. I really do appreciate your time
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>EB

Cursor created with CREATE CURSOR ... command
is read-write cursor.
You can make read-only cursor updatable with:

USE DBF("myReadOnlyCursor") AGAIN IN 0 ALIAS myReadWriteCursor


HTH,

Nick