Thanks for the feedback about VFP8. It is very doubtful if anything will ever change with VFP7.0 so until then I have devised work arounds.
>It works in VFP8beta.
>
>>Tha's good to hear. I am also having trouble with
>>
>>alter table xxx add column _rec I
>>
>>
>>>I got an error in VFP6SP5 but it works in VFP8 Beta.
>>>
>>>>VFP 7.0 Sp1 seems to not handle leading underscores in field names when creating cursors from arrays.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>LOCAL laflds(1)
>>>>CREATE TABLE test (_name1 c(20), _name2 c(30))
>>>>= AFIELDS(laflds,'test')
>>>>CREATE CURSOR curtest FROM ARRAY laflds
>>>>