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>I have isolated down to the fact that if the file name used has the word 'PAY.CSV' in it, the file can not be appended to when run in an EXE, however, in development mode there is no problem.
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>Can anyone else verify?
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Just tried this with VFP SP2. I created this program and built it into an EXE:

cString = "something"
nResult = STRTOFILE(cString, "Pay.CSV")

FOR n=1 TO 10
nResult = STRTOFILE(cString, "Pay.CSV", 1)
WAIT WINDOW "Pass " + TRANSFORM(n) + ":" + TRANSFORM(nResult)
ENDFOR

Worked exactly as expected.

Tamar