Larry,

>Any attempt to access the cursor created by the SPT code will stop VFP until the cursor can be examined. Sylvain is correct in Asynch gives you the ability to do other processing like executing another SPT command while the first command completes.

Well, not _any_ attempt. You can start a SCAN or a DO WHILE loop on the data as it is being gathered and Foxpro will start processing the records happily. That's why I was wondering if there was a list somewhere as to what exacty one can get away with without causing the program to wait for full execution...

But yeah, asynchronous does have a lot of advantages now that I tihnk about it, and I might play with BatchMode if I really want to slice and dice the data before it is all down...

Thanks for the response, and have a great weekend!

JoeK