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>>The remote view is a VFP table.
>yea, I know... I just found that out.. :)

This is not correct. A remote (or local, for that matter) view is not a table at all. As Nick said, a remote view is *just* a SELECT from a non-VFP database. It doesn't contain any data itself. When it is executed, a VFP cursor is created populated by the data matching the SQL statement.