Very Computer

The command:

        select field1 from table1 into cursor cur1

opens workarea A with alias TABLE1
           and B with alias CUR1

If you then USE CUR1 to close it, FPW closes the cursor but leaves the
dbf open.

In my innocence I would have expected the table to also be closed unless
it was also in use for another purpose (rather than me having to monitor
it myself).

I note that closing TABLE1 leaves the cursor open (but I have no complaints
about that!).

Does anybody have any thoughts about this? In particular, how does VFP
handle it?

thankx, anthony shipley

Anthony:
This is not a bug, this is feature ;-)
No, seriously, that's how it supposed to work - you open and close your
dbfs explicitly (or let FoxPro to do it for you by selecting
"Save/Restore Environment" in screen builders, but this is not reliable).

Quote:>Does anybody have any thoughts about this? In particular, how does VFP
>handle it?

Dunno about VFP.
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