>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>Barbra
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>>Try a "where .T. " and the rest of your statement. This will turn off some feateures & you may get some better results.
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>>I think I have a Tip I wrote somewhere around here that explains it.
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>>HTH,
>>Tom
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>Tom, I tried adding "where .t." also. No luck. I think Craig's statement that it depends on VFP, memory and file size is right, and I'll just have to assume there IS no physical file.
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>Thanks to everyone who helped.
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>Barbara

I also think that Craig is right, according with the tests I've done yesterday. :((

Vlad