Because:

?"79999"<"500000" && returns .f.
* but:
?79999 < 500000  && returns .t.

>Nope the full code is:
>
>

>loFSO = Createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
>filepath = 'U:\questpdm\picture\whatever.jpg'
>loFile = loFSO.Getfile(filePath)
>
>IF transform(loFile.Size)<= '500000'
>	MESSAGEBOX("File Size is OK")
>	ELSE
>	MESSAGEBOX("File Size is not OK - File Size="+TRANSFORM(loFile.Size))
>ENDIF
>

>
>The message coming back is File size is not OK. The size of my file is 79KB. If I run this the value of lofile.Size is 79997.