>>Jim,
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>>>'If your only purpose is to add fields to the result you can do that within the SELECT syntax.'
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>>Tell me a select clause which add a general (g) field to a cursor and i'll embrace the 'into table' clause. But i suggest to you see the Cetin's solution: 'alter table' with the cusor alias, no with the table name.
>>Best regards,
>>carlos
>
>Carlos,
>
>Here's an example of adding a general field with SELECT.
>
>

>CREATE CURSOR Temp (MyGen G)
>APPEND BLANK
>SELECT Field1, Field2, Temp.MyGen FROM Table1, Temp ...
>

Ok, Jim. This works of course. Well i think we're talking too much about this and this weekend i go away town. So, we have several solutions and no answer about why file() or/and dbf() are not telling true.
Best regards, Carlos