Jim the whole point of NOFILTER is to garentee a cursor (rather than a filter) wheter it will reside on disk or in the memory is an internal descision by VFP Arnon >That's an interesting point of view, especially when the *WHOLE POINT* of >NOFILTER appears to be to explicitly cause wiritng to disk. > >regards, >Jim N > >>1) This is more a bug in the documentation. It should not explicitly >>state that a file is created on disk. >> >>2) A Solution (well, a workaround) >> >>CREATE CURSOR {whatever} >>SELECT INTO ARRAY >>INSERT INTO {whatever} FROM ARRAY >> >>> Yeah, I'm classifying it as a bug too. >>> > >