>Hi Nick,
>
>I changed the line to:
>USE DBF('temp_cursor') AGAIN IN 0 ALIAS empl_cursor EXCLU
>
>But I still get the screen asking for a '.dbf' on the line where I try to add the column. It's looking for a table. I am using a cursor. Can a cursor be altered?
>
>TIA
>Mike
Hi Mike, See my other reply.
The problem here is that (as James said) the cursor is not a real table on disk, but there are other ways to get the updatable cursor with changed structure from this one. What are you going to use it for? For report?
Nick Neklioudov
Universal Thread Consultant
3 times Microsoft MVP - Visual FoxPro
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