Hi Terry
Maybe VFP has some virtual "in memory" DBC used for these cursors.
If this is the case, wouldn't be nice to have the name and to create temporary tables just by declaring them as being part of that database?

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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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