>A file can be created with FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY in wich case Windows File systems avoid writing data back to the disk if sufficient cache memory is available, because often the application deletes the temporary file shortly after the handle is closed. In that case, the system can entirely avoid writing the data. Otherwise, the data will be written after the handle is closed.

Sergey,

OK I understand that.

Would you know of a sure-fire way to identify that the alias I am dealing with is a cursor? I am thinking that I can't really use the method of checking to see if the file exists, on the off chance that it really does need to exist on the disk for whatever resource reason. CURSORGETPROP() sees the SourceType as a table. Any suggestions?

Laterness,
Jon