Jim, I was doing an APPEND, and needed the actual file name, not the alias name. I did a workaround with no problem. The original problem remains, however.

Barbara

>Barbara,
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>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).
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>Jim N
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>>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.