The first couple of tries, your test program did not choke on the copy
to type delimited command. But nothing would be in the test.txt file.

create cursor x1 ( i1 i, c1 c(10) )
insert into x1 values ( 1, 'test' )
copy to test.txt type DELIMITED
modi file test.txt

But since the copy to delim was working, I tried it with the offending table
which happens to be called IB2005. The first time
copy to ibAll.txt type DELIMITED
worked. Then I tried a
copy to test.txt type DELIMITED with ";"
And got the error. Now, however, this brings an error at the copy to
delim command.
create cursor x1 ( i1 i, c1 c(10) )
insert into x1 values ( 1, 'test' )
copy to test.txt type DELIMITED &&invalid path or file name

But if I do a copy command with a different file name, it works
copy to est.txt type DELIMITED &&works fine
modi file est.txt && shows the values inserted into cursor

This has me confused. I thought that the copy command was supposed to
overwrite the destination file? Is IB2005.dbf is corrupted is their a way
to repair it. In my program, IB2005 gets created by having foxpro open up
an excell worksheet, write it to a DBF file, which foxpro then opens and uses.
So the table is actually created by excel. Assuming that the file from
excel might be corrupted, I suppose I could get around that
by having excel write as csv file and then appending that into a table created
programmatically in foxpro.
Steve