>>I assume you have exclusive use of the file since you can pack. Zap will not clear the grid like pack will. The and .t. is to make sure we don't just get a filter table result for the cusor.
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>There is NOFILTER clause in SELECT-SQL to prevent filtered cursor creation.

Thanks I always forget. I just took the code out of a program we use all the time that had the .t. already in there.