Ron,

If you don't trust VFP COPY command, you can use CopyFile from http://www.berezniker.com/content/pages/visual-foxpro/copy-move-rename-file-preserving-destination-name-case or http://www.berezniker.com/content/pages/visual-foxpro/file-operations-progressbar

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>In your opinion, when you do have direct access, is it better to do the Copy or just a Rename command.
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>I use the rename command because if there is a failure i can recover from it. With the Copy, I sometimes do not error out but the file is not copied to the remote site. I am not sure what is really the best.
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>Thanks for your opinion
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