>Perhaps I was wrong in my original suggestion, since I just tried (VFP9 SP1)
>STRTOFILE('test test','c:\XLS_Files\MyFileTest.txt') and it worked great, the case was preserved.

This is a weird situation. Having having looked at my version, this is what I have (SP2). So, I really do not understand why STRTOFILE() cannot do its job as mentioned.