>>>I NEVER created myself table field, having name longer then 10 characters.
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>>>alter table alias() works like charm for me in VFP6 :)
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>>What alias() returns? AFAIK this code should work just fine, but we're not using it in our code.
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>alias() itself returns currently selected alias.
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>In this case I was using this construction to alter cursor created by
>create cursor command as copy of actual table and then adding fields to it.
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>something like
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>select clients
>local arrStru(1)
>=afields(arrStru)
>create cursor rClients from array arrStru
>alter table alias() add column CustTot n(12,2)
>alter table alias() add column lastPur D(8)
>.
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Is Clients table part of the database? Does it have some specific features of a table belonging to a database, such as PK, for example?

Also you may want to do ALTER TABLE as one step. It should be quicker.
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>But unfortunately this construct does not work anymore in VFP9