I have an older application in fopro 2.6 for dos that I need to give an update to my clients on before I look at moving them to VFP 9. I am trying to Programatically adding a field to a table with "alter table {tablename} add column {column name} C(9)" and I am getting an error "Unrecognized command verb" was alter table a valid command in foxpro 2.6 ? and if not is there any other way that I can accomplish this task ?

Thanks for your help !
Stephen J. Hunt