Thanks Tore, that works fine. Then I really agree with Terry that it is very parodoxally.

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Create Cursor xxx (yourfieldwithareallylongfieldname c(10))

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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.
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>>Hello Terry,
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>>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.
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>>Thanks.