That's what I thought ... but VFP balks when I do that on a cursor created by a SELECT ... ReadWrite

>>Naomi --
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>>Thanks for your help ...
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>>Note that my second question was 'Can somebody specify the ALTER statement ... bla bla'. In your response, it appears that such is possible, but you don't bother to say how to do it.
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>CREATE CURSOR test (CharF C(10) NOT NULL)
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>INSERT INTO test VALUES ('test')
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>ALTER table test alter COLUMN CharF NULL
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>INSERT INTO test VALUES (null)