Question : Copying Tables in Fox 9

I have a table-table a I copy it to table b.   I look at table b and the names of some of the fields have been altered.  a filed called AVERAGEPRICES1  gets copied as AVERAGEPR1.  I tried the copy command and the copy structure command. Same thing  anyone run into this?

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Answer : Copying Tables in Fox 9

Standard DBF format allows field names up to 10 characters. When you add table to a database container then you can define field names up to 128 characters long (these names are not stored in DBF but in DBC). AVERAGEPRICES1 is 14 characters so it must be in database.

When you copy table included in database outside (the copy is a free table) then long field names must be substituted by the standard names.

To preserve long field names you have to specify DATABASE in COPY TO command.