Allan, since 'ficity' is a cursor, its 'real' name is something like '12345678.tmp' Could VFP be seeing thism 'somewhat numeric' value as a SELECT area? You might try using the dbf() function as is necessary when appending to a read/write cursor, etc.

HTH
Barbara

>Here is the english version:
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>I have a form which has a few medium sized tables in the dataenvironment (20,000 records). In one of the methods in the form I create a cursor with approx 200 records. When I try to access this cursor I get ERROR 1152:
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>'You have attempted to select a table outside the 32K work area range or are attempting to reference a file variable in a table that is not open.'
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>What does this mean - 'outside the 32K work area'.
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>thanks, AL