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>Ya know what really gripes me - I can create a cursor with long field names - I cna index and seek on the looong field names - but I cannot create an xBase DBF with long field names.

Hello Terry,

If you don't mind could you explain how you can create a cursor with long field names (longer than 10 characters? ) in foxpro . I didn't know this was possible.

Thanks.