>I am getting that message from time to time.
>That cursor a regular Fox table.
>What would a cursor all of sudden become a read-only?
Are you sure it's about the exact alias you think it is? It could be sitting on a different one. My advice is to suspend (if in development) and take a look at what exactly are the alias(), dbf() and eof() returning. It may be about a different table or cursor, not the one you think.