Very very interesting. :)

Are you get this cheat from Microsoft VFP developers (that's Joke)... ;)

I did a workaround but your's one so smart and so easy...

>To get result you want, create cursor test beforehand to prevent VFP from opening table test with alias test.
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>CREATE TABLE test (testfld c(10))
>USE
>USE test ALIAS atest
>CREATE CURSOR test (DUMMY C(1))
>SELECT * FROM atest INTO CURSOR test
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