The original question asked about CREATE CURSOR, which will not necessarily create a physical file on disk. SQL SELECT is the same unless you add the NOFILTER clause. DBF("MyCursor") will always return a file name, but that file may or may not physically exist.


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>Hi Craig,
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>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.).
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>tia,
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>Hank

Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer