A cursor is created in memory. The only time it will have a physical
presence (if one can call magnetic states on a hard drive a physical
presence) is when it is created in virtual memory on the hard drive. Either
way it is erased when closed unlike a table. It is only intended for
temporary storage so there is no benefit from PACKing it. If you want to
retain the data, perhaps for debugging, then you must use a table - but
remember to delete it when you have finished with it or you will get errors.
John Weller
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07976 393631
>
> HMM... More testing reveals the following oddities:
>
> You can ZAP a cursor created with READWRITE NOFILTER, but you CANNOT
> issue a PACK.
>
> That would be a significant difference from INTO TABLE if you need to
> delete a bunch of records and then wish to pack the table.
>
> @ Vince - I tried doing the USE (DBF("cursorname")) trick, but it
> wouldn't work, since if I closed the cursor, the file was erased, and
> if I left it open, it said it was already being used?
>
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