>Your way of dealing with this will work fine but
>it adds complications to modifications made to the
>child records.
>You need to delete the ones from the ACTUAL file
>and then append the ones from the CURSOR. It can
>all be done, mind you, but it seems like an overly
>complicated means of dealing with something that
>is such a common process
Don,
this is exactly what updatable views will do for u with no effort
what-so-ever

Arnon