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Use the function DbiSetToBegin to position the cursor on the "crack" before the first record in the table.

Crack semantics allow you to set the current cursor position to a point just before the first record, between records, or after the last record. One advantage of crack semantics is that it lets you use a single function to access all records in a table. For example, rather than using DbiGetRecord the first time, and DbiGetNextRecord each subsequent time, you can use DbiGetNextRecord to get all records in a table.

 

Chk(DbiSetToBegin(hCur));                // Position the specified cursor to the crack

                                                                                                                         // before the first record.