>>I thought you'd never ask!

>>CREATE CURSOR curItemInfo ( ;
>>              COURSEID c(10),;
>>              ORGANIZATIONIDENTIFIER c(40),;
>>              ITEMIDENTIFIER c(40),;
>>              RESOURCEIDENTIFIER c(40),;
>>              LAUNCH c(100),;
>>              TYPE c(40),;
>>              TITLE c(40),;
>>              PARAMETERSTRING c(64),;
>>              PERSISTSTATE c(40),;
>>              DATAFROMLMS c(40),;
>>              MINNORMALIZEDMEASURE c(40),;
>>              ATTEMPTABSOLUTEDURATIONLIMIT c(40),;
>>              TIMELIMITACTION c(40),;
>>              COMPLETIONTHRESHOLD c(40),;
>>              NEXT l,;
>>              PREVIOUS l,;
>>              EXIT l,;
>>              ABANDON l,;
>>              ACTIVITYID i)
>>SELECT curItemInfo
>>INDEX on RESOURCEIDENTIFIER TAG RESOURCEID

>>
>>><snip>
>>>>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.
>
>
>I wouldn't have posted that as an example. It figures that you would use reserved words as field names.

And the line SELECT curItemInfo indicates that Terry does not know that the created cursor is also automatically selected, but I am sure that he knows that.