>>Dan & Fred,
>>A year or more ago there was a long thread about cursors being written to disk. The NOFILTER command did not force a cursor to be written to disk, but it DID force the cursor to be a separate file. It's just that Fox will keep that file in memory as long as possible. So if you are looking on the disk for file "10101010.tmp" it may not be found even though you are doing a "browse" on it at the same time.
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>>Barbara
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>I've never had reason to care if it was a "physical" file on the disk, as long as Fox treated it like one (eg: DBF('cursor') finds it OK). Thanks for heads up!

The thread ended up with several people writing at cross purposes - some talking about a cursor that was open, some about the physical file name and some about the physical existance of the file on the hard disk. Took a while to get it all straight.