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>>I am sure that VFP team will fix it in version 10.0 :).
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>It's not a bug. The structure of cursors can not be modified by a program, tables' can.
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I am not saying it is a bug or not. But the fact is that you CAN change the structure of a cursor using ALTER TABLE CursorName when the column is not longer than 10 characters.

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>>As to why?. I have to populate this cursor from a json I get in Web API. The method I use from West Wind Client Tools requires that the cursor has exactly the same names as the names in the json. And this json has a name "Description". So I have to get it into a cursor with this name and then change it to something less than 10 char. Because I need to save this cursor as a free table to the drive. And when you save a cursor with a field name longer than 10 char, it cuts the name to 10 char (becomes DESCRIPTIO).
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>If you need field names longer than 10 characters, and require a permanent storage for the data you're getting from the Web Service, then save the data to tables belonging to a database, so that you can define the table with extended field names.

I created a different work around. I don't want to complicate my solution with the database container. Thank you for your suggestion.