Thanks Terry,

I'm not sure where I picked that up - probably from a Help file sample somewhere. At any rate, thanks for pointing that out.

David

>David
>
>Stange one. Why do enclose LOTSTEMP in parenth.? Surely just

COPY STRUCTURE TO LOTSTEMP WITH CDX

would do?
>
>The following is a much simpler version:
>

>use LOTS in 0
>COPY STRUCTURE TO LOTSTEMP WITH CDX
>use LOTSTEMP in 0
>
>select LOTS
>GO TOP
>
>SCAN
>  SCATTER MEMVAR MEMO
>	
>  SELECT LOTSTEMP
>  APPEND BLANK
>  GATHER MEMVAR MEMO
>ENDDO
>

>
>Terry
>
>