>You are correct that a cursor is in VFP format. However, there is another issue. A cursor may be entirely stored in memory. Without a physical DBF, Crystal can't handle it.
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>>The problem you have is that the cursor is not a fox2x type table underneath; otherwise you could use dbf("") as the name of the table to feed crystal. If you have a DSN set up for a report, you could use dbf("cursor") as the name of the substitute table for the DSN.
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>>Hank

Hi Craig,

are you saying that dbf("") won't always work? I'm assuming that the cursor was selected NOFILTER, or with a JOIN, or with some other mechanism that results in the creation of a cursor (xmltocursor(), etc.).

tia,

Hank