>To reproduce
>
>

Z=00000000000.00
>CREATE CURSOR tt ( t l )
>APPEND BLANK
>SELECT z from tt INTO CURSOR t
>MODIFY STRUCTURE

>
>observed: Width is 13
>expected: Width must be 14
>applies to Vfp 9, Vfp 7
>
>note: SELECT 00000000000.00 from tt INTO CURSOR t works as expected
>
>I have a lot of SELECT Z ...
>statements in my application and customer scripts.
>
>Please advice how to fix this without re-writing all SELECT statements in aplivcation and forcing all customers to re-write all scripts ?

Andrus,
I didn't understand what you're trying to do. Anyway you can fix it:
1) If you want to fix in select:
SELECT m.z+0 from tt INTO CURSOR t
2) If you want to fix at tt level:
CREATE CURSOR tt ( z n(14,2) )

Cetin