>Hi Cetin
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>>You are not telling the type of the file. With a guess from the filename this would work:
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>Sorry my bad. This is a text file with a .rep extension. From the responses I have got I think I understand the logic now, the file to extract has to be in some kind of USE / OPEN to be copied

I use a table with a binary memo that I include in the app - the other two fields in it are a datetime field and a filename. Which is a way to distribute things from within an app - whatever is missing or older on target directory, gets out via strtofile(mypacktable.memo, mypacktable.filename).