Jim,

Okay, I can see that situation. Maybe you could have solved it with a join, and retained the long field names.

create cursor blanks ;
	(myint i, mchar c(20))
select * from customers into cursor cursor1
select * from cursor1 ;
	left join blanks on (.t.) ;
	into cursor cursor1 readwrite
* Tore showed me that the new cursor can have the same name as the old, 
*      because of readwrite...

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>I had the situation a couple of weeks ago where an external process was passing me a cursor. I needed to add some fields to the cursor before having the thing used by a Word Mailmerge. So I ALTER TABLEd and got what I need but only after finding out the hard way that the long field names needed changing to 10 chars or less to mke it work.
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