>>This is probably a silly question but is there any way to make a cursor read/write in VFP 5?
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>James and Cetin got the answer for you... but some good news, in VFP7 you can create Writeable cursors.

In 5 or 6, if you do it the 'use again' way, does the temp table created by use again get cleaned up, disappear, when the cursor closes, i would think so/hope so.