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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)
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