>Is it not possible to have a cursor with the same name of the table as I do in DE interactive cursor creation ?

Not when opening the table as dbf in the same statement.
But as usual there are a few ways around that, depending on your vfp usage.

If you use dbc's you might trick a bit with dbc events - did that myself a few times.
In a DE you could try to use one of the hooks after opening all cursors to rename them -
read up if the relevant properties are writeable at runtime.

HTH

thomas