ALTER TABLE will not work on a cursor when field names are longer than 10 characters because it creates a free table as intermediate step.

>I had a piece of code where I was simply creating a cursor from an array. Then, I used Alter Table. It used to work very well. Now, I made some changes to the original table. I get the error 1115 (Invalid operation on the cursor) on every alter table line that I have. That error states that VFP is trying to do a PACK and cannot do it.
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>My field names are unique (not already in the table) and are not too long. Also, the cursor is normally created without any problem
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>I can't find what can be wrong all of a sudden.
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>Thank you for you help!
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>Normand Savage
>ICX Informatique
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>SELECT prospect 
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>AFIELDS(aTemp,"PROSPECT")
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>CREATE CURSOR curRapport2 FROM ARRAY aTemp
>ALTER table curRapport2 alter COLUMN nofiche I
>ALTER table curRapport2 ADD COLUMN nomMarche C(25)
>ALTER table curRapport2 ADD COLUMN nomProprio C(35)
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