>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?