>Craig,
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>>>>Memory structures are different for arrays than cursors. I agree, that with a large array, paging could occur. But I think it is more likely to occur with a cursor because of the way they are managed.
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>>>AFAIK, cursors (IF NOT FILTERED) are always stored on disk,
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>>Nope. if not filtered, cursors could be totally stored in memory.
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>So why does the DBF("myCursor") function always refer to a file on disk ???

No, it refers to a file name. That file may or may not be on disk.