I forgot to mention the following command that specifies which fields in a table can be visible.

SET FIELDS TO CREATION

>Sergey,
>
>You're right, but he was selecting just one field from several. I was under impression, that in this case the file would be created anyway.
>
>>Michel,
>>
>>W/o NOFILTER foxpro wasn't creating cursor on the disk. Instead it opened source table again with alias temp an issued a series command to get requred result.
>>

>>USE Point Again ALIAS Temp
>>SET FILTER TO
>>CREATION>=ldDate AND CREATION <=ldDate2
>>SET ORDER TO CREATION DESCENDING

>>
>>?DBF("temp") would show the name of source table.
>>
>>Using NOFILTER forces foxpro to create cursor on the disk.
>>
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