1. Jim, I DID use the NOFILTER clause, and had the same problem. Not surprising, since the original SELECT had a concatenated field as one of its fields.

2. Vlad, used( dbf() ) gave FALSE, used( cursorname ) gave TRUE. The cursor was there when I used Disp Stat, but it couldn't be seen with file() or in the Explorer.

3. Tom, this was a file I created with SELECT... to cursor..., not a VFP internal file (really don't care if those are kept in memory). If you also saw this, at least I'm not going crazy.

Thanks, everyone
Barbara

>Barbara,
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>*IF* you created the cursor in question through an SQL statement, then the NOFILTER sub-clause of the INTO clause should put it to disk for sure.
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>regards,
>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.
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>>How do you know the file is not there? I mean: how did you verify that?
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>>> 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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>>Does that means that USE (DBF()) will give an error?
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>>Vlad