>>Why? Why, why, why? That hasn't been a limitation of foxpro files since the Reagan years! It certainly isn't a limitation of SQL!
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>Cursors are limited to ten character field names because they don't live in a DBC.

Nope. This works:

CREATE CURSOR whatever (Thisisaverylongfieldname C(10))

>Only tables in a DBC can have long field names.

Right, but a cursor is not necessarily a table.