Seems to work for me

lcTemp = 'james'
CREATE CURSOR &lcTemp (field1 c(10), field2 c(10))

creates a cursor named james. However, the other suggestions are better. I had just gotten through looking through some code with about umpteen thousand macro substitutions, must've been embedded in my brain (hehehe).

Aloha,

James

>Hi James,
>
>does doing this actually work for you? When I try using macro substitution to name the table I just get a literal name of the variable as the table name rather than the value of the variable as the table name.
>
>Paul