What is the line right befor 'Create cursor'? Wouldn't be a comment with continuation, by any chance?
Something like

* Bad, bad comment ;
Create cursor mainlookup(PSPATH C(50),;
...

>I have a class, in this class is this bit of code
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>Create cursor mainlookup(PSPATH C(50),;
>			TOTPACKETS C(10),;
>			TOTRECORDS C(10),;
>			TOTIMAGES C(10),;
>			TOTPULLS C(10),;
>			FAILED C(100))
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>messagebox(alias())
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>when it is called the alias() shown is blank, I appear not to have created a cursor, or if I have it's not available,

select mainlookup

fails.
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>the code in the command window works fine, and it has been working fine with almost this code, something has happened, and I'm now a bit stuck
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>any idea what could be causing this? an environment setting or something?
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>Ken.