>I am a bit lost on how to work with text file.
>
>Scenario: Changing a text file contents into a text file contents that I can work with
>Roadblock: Need to understand how to import a "fixed" name textfile into the program.
>
>Current program starts as below:
>PARAMETER tcfile
>CLEAR
>PRIVATE pcdt, pctime1, pctermi, pcinout, pcnoee, pcfile
>STORE '' TO pcdt, pctime1, pcnoee
>IF PCOUNT() <> 1
> WAIT WINDOW TIMEOUT 10 'Source ascii file was not defined! Please define source filename.'
> RETURN
>ENDIF
>IF .NOT. FILE(tcfile)
> WAIT WINDOW TIMEOUT 2 'File does not exist or incorrect filename!'
> RETURN
>ENDIF
>
>As you can see, I have use parameter and I have to name a text file together to get the prg to work. All that is okay, but when compiled to exe, there exist a problem when I run the exe outside of foxpro it does not work.
>
>Can someone let me know how to improve this program so that when outside the foxpro environment I can just run this program with the text file found in the same folder.
>
>Appreciate some assistance here.
>
>Regards,
>Christopher

I didn't understand what's your problem and what you're trying to do. Maybe you want something like this:

local lcFile
lcFile = getfile('TXT')
if empty(m.lcFile)
     WAIT WINDOW TIMEOUT 10  'Source ascii file was not defined! Please define source filename.'
     RETURN
ENDIF

Cetin