>>But those sometime cryptic sometime funny field names are IMO good trade-off versus having all other problems down the line.
>>Any time you pool sql query into a cursor you will get truncated field names. So any further processing by code that assumes
>>original field name is potential source of practical problems and/or bugs.
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>What? The only time you get the names chopped off is when you export to fox2x.

That is what I meant. Which I do all the time when massaging data for reports. Almost always end result is genuine local cursor
created from array or directly which is essentially free table somewhere on the disc.