>>I am using the following code to retrieve data into VFP from SQL Server 7.0:
>>= SQLEXEC(gnConnHandle, lcQuery, "query1")
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>>The result is a CURSOR called query1. My ultimate goal is to export the data to a text file.
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>With the cursor created by the SQLEXEC function, you can use the EXPORT command. You don't need to pass through ADO for this.

That is correct. I just wanted to use OLEDB instead of ODBC.