Trey,

I was just reading that in the Online documents, thanks for the help, I guess that's just what I'll have to do.

Thanks again.

- Aaron.

>>Everyone,
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>>I'm generating a cursor using "CREATE CURSOR < Name > FROM ARRAY < Array >", but further down the line I want to "Add" a column to the Table. To do this I use "ALTER TABLE < Name > ADD COLUMN < Name > < Type >".
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>>The problem is, some of the columns in the table I originally created have names longer than 10 chars and when I add the column with the "ALTER TABLE" command it truncates the other field names to be 10 chars also.
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>>How can I add my column and avoid truncating the existing field names?
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>>Thanks,
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>>- Aaron.
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>You can't. Once you start ALTERing a cursor, you use its free table (the TMP file returned by DBF()), which can't have field names >10 chars in length.
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>Assuming this array came from an AFIELDS() call, I would recommend just adding the new fields to the array before creating the cursor.