>It seems that, for whatever reason, when I'm running the code below, if it's >running on my NT 4 Server (locally), it can't find the cursor file (i.e. VFP >launches the Open dialog) to ALTER. It works fine when I run the application >across the network from my Win2000 and Win98 machines, any ideas?

Brian,

Out of interest have a look to see if your created cursor has a presence on disk

? file(dbf('mycursor'))

if not then try using nofilter in the select statement

HTH

Will