You're welcome.

>Perfect! I hadn't thought about the field name length and forgot about union all. So those are both very helpful. Thank you!
>
>Carole
>
>
>>You cannot ALTER cursor with long filed name (longer than 10 characters). You can UNION cursors with memo fields if you can use UNION ALL.
>>
>>>What would prevent me from altering the structure of a readwrite cursor?
>>>
>>>In two different locations in my application, I am creating a readwrite cursor and then dropping the memo fields because I later want to do a union and you can't union cursors with memo fields.
>>>
>>>I know several work arounds, but I am puzzled since dropping a field works fine in one instance and is failing in another.
>>>
>>>So here is some sample code:
>>>
>>>

>>>* mhistory here is the memo field
>>>select cfirst, clast, mhistory ;
>>> from customer ;
>>> where clast = "Brown" ;
>>> into cursor cur_selectedcustomers ;
>>> readwrite
>>>
>>>alter table cur_selectedcustomers drop column mhistory
>>>

>>>
>>>The error I am getting is: Invalid operation for the cursor (Error 1115)
>>>
>>>Which from the VFP help is: An attempt was made to use the PACK command on a cursor.