>It has been long not seeing you :) Hope you're well.

oh, yes, I'm well except the case of positioning in big tables < g >

>As a filter or index is set select recno() into an updatable cursor and create

I agree that if I set filter then I can do that select. The main problem that select recno() from bigtable where filtercondition doesn't use current index order to select records in the same order... and definitely including the expression on which current index is generated into select will hurt the performance

Also, what do you mean by "relation to recno()"?