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>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.

Yes it does.

BTW, I make cursor updatable a lot and got tired of retyping these commands.

So I wrote the following tiny utility:

**cursupdt.prg
**Reused the current alias again with the same name. If done to a cursor
**created with the noFILTER command makes updatable
* Just select the workarea of the cursor you want to be updateable,
* and then issue the command "cursupdt()" or "Do cursupdt"
LOCAL lc_alias,lc_old_alias
lc_old_alias=ALIAS()
lc_alias=SYS(2015)
USE DBF() AGAIN IN 0 ALIAS (lc_alias)
USE IN (lc_old_alias)
SELECT (lc_alias)
USE DBF() AGAIN IN 0 ALIAS (lc_old_alias)
USE IN (lc_alias)
SELECT (lc_old_alias)
RETURN .T.