According to VFP Help (as of version 5), COPY STRUCTURE only creates free tables. However, COPY TO has a DATABASE argument. The only drawback to using COPY TO as opposed to COPY STRUCTURE is that it copies the data as well, but you could just ZAP it.


>>Hello: When I do A copy Struc VFP truncates my long names in the new table.
>>ex. if my original says nameofclient when i do a copu struc it says nameofcl. Is there any way to solve that?
>>TIA
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>Like Christopher said, your table must be in a database to have long field names. The Copy Structure command has a Database argument that I beleive would solve your problem.
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>COPY STRUCTURE TO NewTable DATABASE ExistingDatabase
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>Hope this helps.