>>Michelle,
>>
>>You need to include the NOFILTER option in your SELECT command.
>Jim,
>I guess in this particular case NOFILTER makes no difference, b/c SELECT creates new field ("SPACE(80) AS list").
>Isn't it?
>Thanks,
Oleg,
Then the problem is that the whole cursor fits in memory and fox didn't bother to write a file to disk for it.