Why don't you simply run this one liner

Select * from orig_file into table Temp_copy where .f.

>I have a routine that creates a TEMP table of the same structure as original. Here is the code:
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>select ORIG_FILE
>local array aDbfStruct[1]
>afields( aDbfStruct )
>create table TEMP_COPY from array aDbfStruct
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>But on the line Create Table TEMP_COPY from array aDbfStruct I get the following error:
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>Feature is not supported for non-.DBC tables
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>What could be wrong with this table?