Dear All,

I found the following syntax to make a cursor writeable:

USE DBF("cMyCursor") IN 0 AGAIN ALIAS cAnotherCursor

But if I use the following :

select anyfield from MyTable into cursor cMyCursor

then DBF() gives back the path of the original table, but I don't want to write into the original table.
After some reasonong, I have tried using the following:

select anyfield from MyTable into cursor cMyCursor nofilter

then DBF() gives a really temporary filepath.

According to the VFP documentation, neither of the previous syntax creates phisical files. But practically, the second syntax still produces one.

Is it sure, that the second syntax always produces a temporary file, and thus, is safe to write into the cursor after making it writeable?

P.S.: I know, that

select anyfield, .t. from MyTable into cursor cMyCursor

does the job, but I would like to understand the theoretical background.

TIA

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