Bingo! Thats the ticket! Thanks Sergey.

Glenn
>Hi Glenn,
>
>A cursor file has extension "TMP".

IF JUSTEXT(DBF("mycursor")) = "TMP"
>  * Cursor
>ELSE
>  * Filtered cursor
>ENDIF

>
>>How can a routine determine if a cursor is truly a (disk based) table or only a temporary cursor. The filename can not necessarily establish that the dbf() in question is a cursor or table.