>Hi All,
>
>If any one can tell me what I should do. I am deciding now
>to give the entire file ( record 2000 to 8000) to client
>although they only need to look at say 20-40 records at a given
>time. I could extract those records and let them work on that.
>But I would like to give them the entire file and set filter
>on those records or create a view with parameter.
>Speedwise what makes sense?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Aiko Ichimura

Basically, view (or cursor) is much faster for VFP interface than filter. Though, I wonder if any difference will be visible for 2000 records, that's not a number for VFP.