Hi Walter,
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>The problem is that you cannot do a ALTER TABLE ADD COLUM on a cursor, so I had to think of some other solution where I could change the structure of the underlying recordsource without loosing all the columns settings and objects of those columns which were not altered (a fixed set of columns in my case)

Apparently one excellent data manipulation feature of VFP,
adding fields to cursor on the fly, has gonne with wind of versions :(
I use extensively ;
alter table alias() add column ...
with my cursors and it worked great in VFP6sp5.

Recently I was testing my 'goods' with VFP9 only to discover that
you can't do it anymore! I found at the end replacement solution that will work for me, but I still hv to go trough lot of code and do replacements if I decide to upgrade fully to VFP9.

Someone should start shouting at M$ right away about this ;
It is a BUUUUG !!! :))