>>Hi Sylvain,
>>so...append from dbf("cursor")...I need to append from the cursor.
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>Yes, it will append FROM the cursor to the currently selected table. The thing is : the cursor is actually a DBF file named from a Sys(3) unique file name. The DBF() function gets the actual underlying DBF file name and you will then append from it.
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Sylvain and Mary-Ann,

You should be sure you wrote your cursor SELECT code with NOFILTER if it's a single-table cursor. the APPEND won't work if the cursor is actually a filtered table.

HTH
Barbara