Dear Mike,

It is very strange, that none in the 3 above cases, I can't find a physical file, where dbf() shows!

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>>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?
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>Yep, thats its purpose. If your select statment results in a cursor that can really be a filtered version of the original table, VFP will use that. But if you include NOFILTER a new temp file will be used