>Hilmar
>not in file name but inside the text file.
I don't think this is relevant. The file doesn't even have to exist for addbs() to work - so I don't think VFP actually analyzes the file, rather, that it only analyzes the string you provide, and adds a backslash at the end if there is none.
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