>As you know, when you create a cursor with CREATE CURSOR, Foxpro creates a TMP file in the temp directory. And when you close the cursor, Foxpro deletes the TMP file. Great. But if you do ALTER TABLE on that cursor, Foxpro won't delete the TMP file when you close the cursor. I found this out the hard way when a user had over 14,000 file in her TEMP directory!
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>I didn't see anything about this on Microsoft knowledgebase. Does anyone know why this happens? Is it a bug? It happens in 3.0b and 5.0a

There was a bug in 3 (maybe 5?) that TMPs weren't cleaned up sometimes, check MS KB bug docs...in vfp6, I just tested and the cleanup went fine, but did not occur until I exited vfp.