>Richard ----
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>You are correct in that SUBSTR(SYS(2015),3,10) would generate an error today with SELECT ... INTO CURSOR. However, if you are running VFP5 you're obviously in a Win32 environment....why not just use the *whole* SYS(2015) tag for the cursor/tempfile name?

Sometimes we aren't 'blessed' with running on a file system that supports Long File Names; if you aren't careful with old Novell systems, for example, you can be hurt pretty badly by SYS(2015).

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>>This morning (11/18/1998) I came to work to discover that our main VFP 5.0 application was not working in any of our offices.
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>>The problem resulted from the fact that we're using SUBSTR(SYS(2015), 3, 10) to create unique names for cursors and temporary tables (Note that this is as reccommended in the VFP documentation under the SYS(3)-Legal File Name topic).
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>>On 11/18/1998, the expressesion generates a string beginning with zero. This seems to be the cause of the problem. The solution was simply to preface the expression with a letter (ex: 'T'+SUBSTR(SYS(2015)).
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>>If anyone else has experienced the problem today, give this a try!