>>Thanks Tore and Ooops!
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>>There are 3 slightly different versions to this prog that I had to amend. 2 of them go on to do some extra printing/fputting after the initial code shown below. It just so happens that I forgot to put in the FCLOSE() for this particular case (which I've now fixed, of course)
>>Do you think that would have had some bearing on the problem {sheepish grin}?
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>Well, reminds me of some old "you didn't say 'Please!'" jokes.

I don't think I know of any so that allusion totally escapes me ????

And my question was serious - do you think that may be (one of) the reason(s) for the failure to write the details to the file - in the exe version at the client's (as I said, it worked OK in VFP, debug and the EXE here)?