>OK then, I don't know if this will be faster, but I will give it a try:
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>

select RecNo() AS RecNo, SortName from tmp1 where optimizedcondition;
>  order by sortname into cursor tmp2 NOFILTER

This sould give a smaller cursor. Then:

Thanks for advice but recno() in selects don't return proper values, it is filled with 1 ;(, so it won't work either, huh, pretty stupid problem, why MS can't provide use the function or whatever else to let us know the record number by index tag not by physical order...