From VFP 7 help:

Each Order_Item must correspond to a column in the query results and can be one of the following:
...
A numeric expression indicating the location of the column in the result table.

However, the following program causes error

SQL: Column 'NORDER' is not found.

How to use expressions in ORDER BY clause ?

norder = 1
CREATE CURSOR test ( test c(1) )
SELECT * from test ORDER BY (norder)