Hi Terry,
I don't think this is true. Cursors will take long names. Free Tables or temp Tables will trunate to 10 character field names.

>Another thing to watch for if selecting into a cursor is if some of your source field names are greater than 10 chars long:
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>1) the cursor's field will be truncated to 10 chars
>2) if there are 2 fields with the same 1st 10 chars you'll get an error