Thanks, both of your solution and Brad is working properly now.
Thanks to both of you


>>LIST FILES TO TEST.TXT suppress the wait window message but still SENDING THE RESULT TO FOXPRO MAIN SCREEN, I would like to suppress that too.
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>Oh, you didn't list that as a requirement. :)
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>Brad's answer will do what you want. You cannot test it from the command window....only works within a program.