Jim, although this whole matter drove me NUTS for a while, I disagree with your last statement. IM(NS)HO The *WHOLE POINT* of NOFILTER is to give you a separate and distinct cursor/table not a filtered copy. The fact that the docs say it is written to disk is a different matter.

Barbara

>That's an interesting point of view, especially when the *WHOLE POINT* of NOFILTER appears to be to explicitly cause wiritng to disk.
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>regards,
>Jim N