#1 It's legal
#2 It's the same name (in fact a cursor with the same alias)
#3 It's a different cursor
#4 A cursor structure can not be altered (The command is ALTER TABLE)

The problem is that it will work like closing the first cursor and creating a new one rather the modifing the old one.
If you have a CONTROLSOURCE bound to the first cursor it is lost. If you simple work with the cursor in subsequent SELECT etc it's no problem

If you need to alter a structure, you would need SELECT .. INTO Table and later ALTER TABLE

Lutz

>Hi All:
>
>What is the best way to add to more columns to a cursor and still remain with the same name?
>
>i.e. is this legal:
>
>

>Sele custno, fieldb ;
>from Table1 ;
>Into Cursor cursor1
>
>sele cursor1.*, nvl(cursor2.sales, 0) ;
> from cursor1 c1 ;
>left outer join cursor2 c2 ;
>on c1.custno = c2.custno ;
>into cursor cursor1   &&  <==Same Name
>

>
>I'm in VFP5, but that should no make any difference; I'll test that.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Yossi