>>I have just discovered that if I create a cursor with a name beginning with a number, I get a syntax error, i.e
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>>CREATE CURSOR 123457 (tField c(10) )
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>>returns a syntax error but
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>>CREATE CURSOR abcdef (tField c(10) )
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>>does not.
>>
>>Is this new, or merely something I have not run across before?
>>
>>Regards,
>
>Not sure if it's anything new or not. I *think* it's always been there. And that you've just not run into it before. :)

Fred,

You are probably right. But I wonder having used SYS(2015) all these years to get unique cursor names, why I have not run into this before -- especially since file names beginning with a mumeral became legal in DOS 5 ( or 6? ).

Regards,