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>OK I understand that.
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>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?

Jon,

I know only a kludgy way

IF JUSTEXT(DBF("mycursor")) = "TMP"
  * This is a cursor
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