Hello Naomi,

>I don't see any mask used in your example. Try
>
>SYS(2000,'c:\windows\*w*.exe') in both SYS commands.

Ok. I'll give that a shot, too. One sec...going to use
*A*.exe....should only have a few of those...one sec....

Ok. Came back with 6 records...going to check it against
"dir c:\windows\*A*.exe"....

05/03/2005 08:43 PM 69,632 Alcmtr.exe
01/04/2006 01:29 PM 2,809,856 alcwzrd.exe
01/09/2006 04:32 PM 2,158,592 MicCal.exe
08/04/2004 01:00 PM 69,120 NOTEPAD.EXE
01/04/2006 01:27 PM 86,016 SoundMan.exe
08/04/2004 01:00 PM 15,360 TASKMAN.EXE
6 File(s) 5,208,576 bytes
0 Dir(s) 130,723,459,072 bytes free


Well, it works for me under VFP 9 SP1. (Shrug.)


If it still doesn't work under 8, there is another work-around,
although it's a pain in the rear. You know you're going to get
a few records that aren't suppose to be in there, so read the
directory list into an array, UPPER() everything, and parse for
the error records, deleting them as you go, and then save/calculate/whatever.
Elegant? Heck no! :^) Kludge? You bet! :^)....but hey....it'll
work :^) :^).

Personally, I'd buy VFP 9 -- even if I had to pay for my own personal
copy and theirs! -- before I wrote code like that, though :^).

>BTW, one unrelevant comment - you don't have to use m. as m.lcFileName when lcFileName
>is on the left side. Only when it's on the right.

Ah. Ok. Thanks for the info. I like learning little tricks like this! :^).


Regards,

Randall