Hi Naomi
>>
>>>What FILE("myVcxFile.VCX") returns?
>>
>>*loODBC = NEWOBJECT("cODBC", "C:\VSO3\Common\Libs\cVSONoSCNonVisualUtilities.vcx")
>>MESSAGEBOX(LOWER("C:\VSO3\Common\Libs\")$LOWER(SET("PATH")))
>>MESSAGEBOX(LOWER("cVSONoSCNonVisualUtilities.vcx")$LOWER(SET("classlib")))
>>MESSAGEBOX(FILE("cVSONoSCNonVisualUtilities.vcx"))
>>loODBC = NEWOBJECT("cODBC", "cVSONoSCNonVisualUtilities.vcx")
>>
>>.T.
>>.T.
>>.F.
>>
>>UPPER() LOWER() to FILE() did not matter.
>
>If FILE returns .F. it means that this file is not in the path. Verify the spelling of the classlibrary and that the file is where it is supposed to be.

But then why would the first line (now commented out) work, I have just copy pasted for the messagebox()es