>>Ah...thanks. That's an odd stipulation.
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>ALTER TABLE creates a free temp table which would cause long name truncation.

Figured it had something to do with free tables.

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>>Still not sure why someone would need to ALTER a cursor. Can you think of a scenario?
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>There's no easy way to add Integer or Memo field to the list of query fields. In VFP9 it can be done with CASE() function.

I usually create a temp cursor with an int and/or memo field, and use that in the SELECT to get those data types.

But of course you already know that trick :)