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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01171727
Message ID:
01171814
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13
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>CREATE CURSOR test (long_field_name c(1))
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>ALTER table DBF("test") add shortf c(1)
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The second line won't be of any help here, as I found out earlier today.

Perhaps you implied to say that ALTER TABLE does not deal with cursors. However, it does alter a cursor also. The next command will work:
CREATE CURSOR test (shortf c(1))

ALTER table test alter column shortf c(2)
Groet,
Peter de Valença

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