I finally figured out why the cursor couldn't update, I was moving free tables
into the subdirectory after running setup.exe and trying to modify them after
the fact. The files were not set to exclusive on which made things go crazy.
I have learned my lesson and will always work on the dbfs during design and prior to setup wizard.

Thank you for you advice, I need to learn more about the DE.

Ed,
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>>I worked on this yesterday, it seem to work, however, after the
>>pageframe would close and return to menu form, the line of code in before open
>>table would show up on screen and nothing I did would make it stop displaying
>>on screen.
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>>I also had trouble getting correct syntax for this, could you give me an example?
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>>How can I hide this? I recall reading in an earlier posting that when using free tables that you don't necessarily need to use cursors or dbcs, would I be better off to stop using these?
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>>vfp 3.0 in win 95
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>*** DE.BeforeOpenTables event
>local cDatadir
>select config && configuration table (open at start of App)
>cDatadir=alltrim(config.datadir)
>thisform.setall("database",cDatadir+"upts.dbc","cursor")
>Note: this will work properly if all DE.cursors are dbc-included tables(views). If you use free tables, you should reset Cursor.Cursorsource properties.