>>My base table doesn't have a memo field, but I want my updatable view, or cursor to have one. I can say 'select space(10) as spacefield', but how can i say something like 'select memo(10) as mymemofield'.
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>>How can I create the memo on the fly, unless i do a join from a dummy table that has a memo already in it -
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>>ty
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>>David Schlesinger
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>CREATE CURSOR temp (memofield M)
>APPEND BLANK
>SELECT yourtable.field,temp.memofield AS "whatever" FROM yourtable, temp INTO CURSOR yourcursor
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>You'll now have a cursor containing 2 fields, one from yourtable named "field" and one from temp named "whatever".

I think you're pretty much stuck with the dummy table way of doing it.