Will,

I wonder if you'd get the presence if you did a FLUSH right after the Select?

My guess is that a presence is good to go but still buffered when you test for it.

Good luck,

JimN

>I seem to be coming up with some strange things today...
>
>I have a select statement with a Nofilter command in it
>
>

>Select ;
>	prod_cd , ;
>	Alltrim(Str(ean_cd,14,0)) as ean_cd, ;
>	Alltrim(Str(var_num,2,0)) as var_num, ;
>	prod_grp, desc ;
>	FROM cur_prsr ;
>	ORDER BY prod_cd ;
>	INTO CURSOR pa_prsrch NOFILTER
>
>? File(dbf()) && Returns .F.
>

>
>This creates a cursor with no presence on disk...
>so I tried adding a Where .T. clause in...
>Still no luck
>
>I even looked with Explorer to see if the File() check was lying
>
>I thought this wasn't a problem any more?
>
>Win95 VFP6 SP4