>>>I tried the DBF() function and the function wouldn't work either.
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Select *,12.45 as rte_base from a_slips into cursor rptfile readwrite where .f.

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>I'm betting that you then load data from a_slips into this cursor- so maybe you can make the SELECT a lot smarter to get the data straight in there.

John
That's a good solution. Hmm why didn't I think of that?
I redimension'ed the array with the added column and that did the trick so this one is in the books
I came across another usage of ALTER TABLE in the same app, but it drops 2 columns in this case.
There are too many columns for me to go picking the ones I want in the SELECT, so I'll have to figure a clever workaround.
I'm thinking about using ADEL() to remove the unwanted columns from the array before creating the cursor.