Hi Hilmar,

>OTOH, if you SELECT ... INTO CURSOR NOFILTER and then process the result (for a report), none of the above apply.

Why wouldn't SCAN work with this? IMO, this should work in all cases!? Maybe I'm missing something here?

LOCAL lnI
lnI = 0
scan
  lnI = lnI + 1

  if lnI % 100 = 0  && every 100 records
    wait window trans(lnI) + " records processed" nowait
  endif

  * Main processing goes here
endscan

Armin