>I need to create a cursor using a command line. I understand the command "Create cursor XXXX" but I don't know how to specify a data type of character binary. It's not in the help file. I need a field to store non standard characters.
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The character/binary is a memo/character field with NOCPTRANS attribute. IOW, it's character field with code page translation disabled. VFP8 doesn't have any binary field types (besides GENERAL).

CREATE CURSOR crsTest (MyKindOfBinaryMemo M NOCPTRANS, MyKindOfBinaryChar C(50) NOCPTRANS)