When I use ALTER TABLE to add a .null. to a column in a cursor the field names are all trimmed to 10 characters in length. Is there another way to work around this??

LOCAL ARRAY laPmStruct[1,1], laPmData[1,1]
SELECT TempPm
= AFIELDS(laPmStruct)
CREATE CURSOR AllPm FROM ARRAY laPmStruct
* at this point some field names are more than 10 characters
ALTER TABLE AllPm ;
	ALTER COLUMN DueHours NULL 
* after this command none are longer than 10

Thanks