>>>BACK on the case, I did the above, and it worked. Now am I free somehow to work in the foxpro environmnt? If I do, does it always create a temp cursor?>Yes and Yes.
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>How can you browse the live data rather than a cursor?

You can't. No matter what front end you use, you will always be looking at a cursor. Data from Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, etc., can not be browsed live like a VFP table.