>Hello all
>
>I'm trying to backup a table from a database to backup area, the table's field names had more than 8 chars,but the backup table shows only 8 chars in field names,rest getting truncated. what am i missing
>
>use mydbc!mytable
>copy to backup\test.dbf with production
>
>TIA

the copy is being made a free table, so you need to specify a dbc, e.g.
copy to backup\test.dbf with production database backup\theBackupDBC