FWIW, when W7 came out and pretty much forced applications to be in Program Files, I put a space or two in the path to my development project so all testing would have to deal with spaces in file names/paths.

>Yes, based on your & Al's feedback, I've eliminated all reliance on
>VFP being smart enough to compensate for strings that include quotes as
>part of the fully qualified file name. I'll do some more testing, but it
>appears that I don't have to worry about name expressions and
>function parameters, which cover most of it. Obviously, the biggest
>instance of required quotes is for USE "pathwithspaces\filename"
>
>-m.