Re: Appending from a Cursor

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 8:31 PM, Gene Wirchenko genew@telus.net wrote:

 I am puzzled why (alimport) works for the SQL but not the append from,

but whatever.

I agree with you that it is un-intuitive that aliases work *almost* everywhere. It's one of those hundreds of FoxPro's "always been that way" things.

As others have said, APPEND FROM is ancient nearly-original XBase. While it was updated occasionally for new file formats, the main purpose of the command is a low-level IMPORT (sibling command) from foreign formats and not as a cursor-manipulation command, so it's intended for reading files-on-disk and not cursors.