I agree, Nancy.
The original question, as I understood it, was given a particular table that was the result of a SQL SELECT, how can you know if this table is a cursor or a DBF. I don't believe you can choose to assign an alias other than the table name in a SELECT .... INTO TABLE.tablname. Unless, of course, you USE that table AGAIN giving it an alternative alias.

>Dore, Alan-
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>>IF JUSTSTEM(DBF('alias1')) # 'alias1'
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>This is prone to introduced nightmarish bugs if you ever happen to use aliases other than the table name.
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>IMHO, it would be much more solid design to decide that the sources for this type of work will be either views or tables. Views would be better, IMO.