>Hi Gregory.
>
>Ooops. Yes I can do this.
>I was shure to have tried and failed ages ago (VFP 5 ???). And I never use fieldnames longer then 10 chars.
>
>Lutz
>
>>>#4 A cursor structure can not be altered (The command is ALTER TABLE)
>>
>>
>>Oh, yes, it can - as long as the length of the fieldname is max 10 chars - beyond 10 chars you will get an error
>>
>>> If you need to alter a structure, you would need SELECT .. INTO Table and later ALTER TABLE
>>
>>Not necessarily
>>
>>

>>	create cursor tmp ;
>>	(	Id	I, ;
>>		Name c(20);
>>	)
>>	insert into tmp values (1, '1')
>>	insert into tmp values (1, '1')
>>	
>>	alter table tmp ;
>>		alter Name c(10) ;
>>		add FirstName c(15);
>>		
>>
>>

Thanks, guys.