>I aliased table test as atest. Maybe from your viewpoint it's not a bug. But from mine, It's a bug.
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>>There is no bug here. You try to select from table test into cursor test. Since the name is test for both the from table and the result cursor, you get the correct error. What did you expect? I agree that the error message is misleading, but it's definely no bug.

To speed up frequent selects, it's an old trick to keep the tables open by issuing USE statements for all the relevant tables early in the code. If you USE a table ALIAS something, then the alias is treated exactly like it was the name of the table. AFAIK it's "always" been like that. Try this

Use yourtable as xxc
Select * from xxc && You get exactly the same result as if you issue Select * from yourtable

If you consider this a bug, it's your choice. I never consider documented behavior as a bug. If documented behavior is a bug, then VFP has a lot of bugs. <vbg>