>It could be using some of dbc-only properties (default values, triggers, long field names, nulls etc). Set a breakpoint on the create table command, and in the debugger look at the aDbfStruct array. If there's anyting non-default in any columns beyond the 5th, that's it.
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The table has no triggers, long field names, nulls. The only thing I see in the debugger is the the first element of the array has value of the table name in column 12. All other elements have this column as empty string.
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select * from orig_file into cursor temp_copy readwrite nofilter;
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>In the end, if you really want the content of the cursor in a free table for later, you can copy it out by a simple copy command.
You see, this routine I am working on is for fixing data corruption.
The routine creates a temp table of the same structure and then record-by-record copy from what maybe a bad table to a temp table.
Thank you for your suggestions.
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