Hi Jim,
IIRC, it's a bug caused by VFP creating new entry in NameTable each time select is run. I don't remember is there's any workaround besides using array instead of a cursor. I hope Jim Saunders jumps in and provides more info.
>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
--sb--