>>The NOFILTER option forces VFP to create a disk file regardless of whether the data will fit in RAM or not.
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>>The downside of using NOFILTER is that it may cause the first select to take longer on the laptop than it does now.
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>Jim,
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>Something I have noticed recently...
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>Even using nofilter does not force VFP to create a file on disk
>I have a few select statements with nofilter in them - I try doing a file(dbf()) check on them and they return .f.
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>What it does seem to do though is create a slightly more real cursor (if you see what I mean :-) which can then be used in subsequent Selects
You've told us that file(dbf()) returns .F. What does dbf('aliasofcursor') return?