>>Any guesses on how an alias can disappear?
>>
>>I have the following:
>>

>>      SELECT * FROM components INTO CURSOR MyComponents ;
>>         WHERE KitID==lcPartNo
>>      llIskit = 0<RECCOUNT("MyComponents")
>>

>>This is in a loop that is executed a few thousand times. On rare occasions, the second line fails with "alias not found" ... and when this occurs, ALIAS() is empty! That's right, I get a cursor with NO alias.
>>
>>Any guesses on how to get around this? (No, it's not as easy as doing RECCOUNT() -later on, having done various and sundry other things with other SELECT statements, I need to get back to this alias --)
>>
>>Thanks
>
>Hi James, The second line looks strange. Is it a typo? llIskit = 0<RECCOUNT("MyComponents")

I would normally write it the other way: reccount(...) > 0; but apart from personal preference, I think it is perfectly valid.