You're welcome. Tell you truth I didn't look at your code or I would be confused too. :)

>Thanks, Sergey - The example I show has no field name longer than ten characters ... but that wasn't the example I tested < s >
>
>SELECT ccompany FROM customers INTO CURSOR temp READWRITE
>ALTER TABLE 'temp' ADD COLUMN url m
>
>works fine. ( didn't want someone else to be confused by my error )
>
>In the example I test, if I alias the field in the select statement to a 10 character name all works well.
>
>SELECT cfirst,clast,celementary_school as celem ;
>FROM ambassadors INTO CURSOR temp readwrite
>ALTER TABLE 'temp' ADD COLUMN mnotes m
>
>Handy to know.
>
>
>>In VFP7 ALTER TABLE doesn't work on cursors with field names longer than 10 characters.
>>
>>>In the tips in the back of the Sept 2002 UT magazine :
>>>
>>>Sometimes, you may want to add some fields to a cursor. Assuming, you have created your cursor in READWRITE mode, you could do the following:
>>>
>>>ALTER TABLE 'temp' ADD COLUMN cImage c(20)
>>>
>>>Since this mentions readwrite I assume it refers to a cursor created with a SQL Select
>>>
>>>SELECT ccompany FROM cutomer INTO CURSOR temp READWRITE
>>>ALTER TABLE 'temp' ADD COLUMN url m
>>>
>>>When I do this I get an 'Invalid operation for the cursor' message.
>>>
>>>I was hoping this would be a shortcut around the old dummy cursor Cartesian join trick. What am I missing?
>>>
>>>TIA