It's hard to imagine a circumstance where SELECT FROM into a cursor then APPEND FROM DBF('the_cursor') won't work better than APPEND FROM with the FOR clause.

>I can't figure for the life of me why they made it so backwards. I can't even think of a theoretical situation in which I'd use it.
>
>>The FOR clause in APPEND FROM has always been 'unintuitive' IMHO. So far I have been unable to come up with a scenario where I'd like to use it. Have you any theories Erik?
>>
>>>On another note- are you sure you know exactly what the FOR clause in APPEND FROM does? Read the help file very carefully, you might be surprised- most people are.