Sandy,
A hard case. What I think you would at least need space as big as ASCII file + some for reordering. With cursor approach I think the space you need would be 2 * ASCII file + some for reordering. Now I think if there is any possibility to delete the ASCII file to recover space :
- Create a table rather than a cursor
- Append from ASCII
- Manipulate
- If succeeded and have space for reordering
-- Delete ASCII && Could be written back from table
-- SQL to table
Cetin

>Cetin,
>What I didn't make clear is that in the load of the form, I use a
>CREATE CURSOR command. After the user selects a file name with
>GETFILE(), I use the APPEND FROM to imput the ascii file. After
>Some data manipulation, I have to decide if I can create an ordered
>table with an SQL command or simply create the table with a COPY
>STRU command and get the data inside the new table. I then close
>the new table and turn on another application with then uses it.
>
>The reason I need to order it is that the other application will
>use the table for 21 hours if unordered, if ordered, it cuts it
>down to 12 hours.
>
>By the way, the other app doesn't recognize indexes.
>
>>Sandy,
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