Hi Randy (and Matthew),

I get the same result as Matthew.

I did choose a table with a Memo field to USE, on the off chance that such might be related.

I repeated with a table that had no Memo field and all was well.

Jim Nelson

>Have to agree with Sergey, I just tried this in the VFP7 command window and it works fine, I used the labels.dbf table for the second procedure.
>
>>I think this may be a bug in VFP 7, but I was wondering if anyone else has run into it?
>>
>>Try this in VFP 7:
>>
>>(From the command window)
>>CREATE CURSOR binky (field1 C(10))
>>ALTER TABLE binky ADD COLUMN field2 C(15)
>>(should work fine)
>>
>>Now try this:
>>DIMENSION laStru[1]
>>USE anytable
>>=AFIELDS(laStru)
>>CREATE CURSOR newCursor FROM ARRAY laStru
>>ALTER TABLE newCursor ADD COLUMN NewField C(8)
>>(boom!)
>>This last statement generates the error "Invalid operation for the cursor". It worked fine in VFP 6.
>>
>>TIA for any help.
>>
>>-Matt