>Hi All,
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>In the VFP6.0 help for SYS(3) it states the following:
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>SYS(3) may return a non-unique name when issued successionally on a fast
>computer. Use SUBSTR(SYS(2015), 3, 10) to create unique, legal eight
>character file name.
>

>
>I use the above technique to create a string which in turns is used as the name for a cursor. As of Today ( 14 July ) using the above method returns a string that starts with 0 ( zero ) which causes an error when creating the cursor as cursor names don't seem to be allowed to start with a numeric. I've worked around the problem by adding a non numeric character to the start of the string and it works fine.
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>I assume the problem has something to do with not being allowed an alias that starts with a numeric.
>
>Regards,

Gavin you can also just use SYS(2015) which always produces 10 char valid file names that start with an underscore. No changes required.