Barbara,

What is it that you would like to do with this cursor/file that you find yourself unable to do (other than "see" it, I mean).

Jim N

>I have a cursor (VFP50a, Win95) which has a filename assigned, which can be read with dbf(). However, the file does NOT exist in the temp file. I've checked that the temp directory DOES exist, and that the cursor exists - I can browse it. However, I can't access it with the filename.
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>There are work arounds, such as using a table and deleting it when the form closes, but I'd like to know why there's a file name but no file. I'm assuming the cursor is completely in memory, but don't know how to work with it.
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>Dragan Nedeljkovic mentioned something similar in the 'View, cursor or something else?' thread a week ago. Anyone else have this problem? And found a solution?
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>TIA
>Barbara