>>>Hi Sylvain,
>>>so...append from dbf("cursor")...I need to append from the cursor.
>>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>
>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

Hi Barbara,

I knew this was necessary with older versions of vfp (aka VFP3) but I thought it was not needed anymore ???

S.