Stacy,

>>can you start a cursor name w/ a numeric value?
>
>Nope, or form properties/methods and object names, or field names.

It's a FP limitation. You MUST start from letter. Try this:

curName='1eee'
CREATE CURSOR (curName) ;
 (EmpID N(5), Name C(20), Address C(30), City C(30), ;
  PostalCode C(10), OfficeNo C(8) NULL, Specialty M)

&& Gives a syntax error

curName='rr'
? curName
CREATE CURSOR (curName) ;
 (EmpID N(5), Name C(20), Address C(30), City C(30), ;
  PostalCode C(10), OfficeNo C(8) NULL, Specialty M)
brow

works fine