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Why not error at the point the cursor is created?
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Long fieldnames are valid in cursors in previous versions, this would break backward compatiblity.


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Or better yet, since it seems you can now create a cursor with long filenames, why not make everything work with the long file names?
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This would be an enhancement request. We made the change in VFP7 to prevent data corruption, in this case the fieldname truncation.

Jim