Yes, I think that would have done it.
Unfortunately it didn't come to mind that time, but it will next time.

cheers


>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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