> >> the fake filename doesn't stop you from using the cursor in any known > >> way. It works as if it existed :) > > Dragan, the > > USE (dbf('cursor_alias')) again alias another > > command DOES work, but used(dbf()) doesn't work - just gives .f. > "used(dbf())" won't work - used() requires an alias. As for the legendary phantom filename, OK, I'll eblist it into my bug map. Though, this is just an analysis-paralysis bug - does no harm except having us here transfering a megabyte of text around the world :) Probably the NoFilter has an internal override - and it's not the first case that there were some, er, features done differently than specified, and the help writers were not informed on time, or not at all. > > Arnon (and others) are right, even with NOFILTER and a dummy field it's > still a memory file, despite what VFP says in its help file. > > Thanks to all, > Barbara Then it's simply immaterial - it doesn't exist, but it works :) We may now discuss should we keep calling it "Phantom cursor" or a "virtual cursor" or whatever :)