Hi Paul,

If you have to filter out data in custwait anyway maybe you should use SQL SELECT to create ctempperf table/cursor?

 SELECT * ;
  FROM custwait ;
  WHERE &cFilter ;
  INTO CURSOR ctempperf

>Jim & Sergey,
>
>I found the way around by copying custwait.dbf from the network drive
>to c:\custtemp.dbf and execute from there to obtain ctempperf.dbf with
>reasonable speed less than 2 minutes as FPW 2.6 performed with VFP7.
>
>I really appreciate both of you for SCAN ... ENDSCAN PROCESS TECHNIC which ran faster and also to all who got involved too.
>
>Best regards,
>PP