Terry,

All expressions in the FOR loop statement are evaluated only once at the start of the loop

lnMin = 2
lnMax = 3
FOR i = lnMin TO lnMax
	? i, lnMin, lnMax
	lnMin = 0
	lnMax = 5
ENDFOR

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>Just on a wee efficiency note: why are you evaluating ALEN(laFiles,1) every time through the for loop - up to 13,000 time?
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>I always use something like:
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>lnAlen = ALEN(laFiles,1)
>For I = 1 to lnAlen ...
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