>The big picture is simple. Regardless what you pick it'll be obsolete tomorrow because M$ will come with >newest and greatest replacement. Also there's no guaranty that whatever you pick will be available on all >Windows versions you support.
Well, there is advance in everything related to computers and programming.
To classify Scripting.Filesystemobject: It's a COM-Component that con be used by a Scripting Engine which is hosted by a Scripting Host. Which is the rough structure of Active Scripting from bottom to top. WSH is a scripting host, MS made VBScript and Jscript/ECMAScript as Scripting Engines or languages. But any COM enabled language like VFP can make use of those COM components like Scripting.Filesystemobject too, directly.
Scripting is a wide subject. Alejandro, have a look here for starters:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/start.mspxhttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/default.mspxhttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/beginner/firststeps.mspxBye, Olaf.