Touché, Mike. What I was really trying to point out, though, was that you don't need the parentheses around DBF().

>>What was wrong was the missing "IN 0". Attempting to open the DBF() of the cursor in the same work area in which the cursor itself was open caused the cursor to be closed, which deletes the temporary file, which results in the "file not found" error.
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>Thats a lovely paraphrase of:
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>**
>and without the IN 0 you actually are closing the cursor. USE will close whatever is in the current wa and then open the new file, thats why you can do:
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>USE Table SHARED
>USE Table EXCL
>**
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>:-)