>>>>>Thanks but I get unrecognised command verb on the line lparameters tcDir, tcSkeleton
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>>>>I don't. Which version of VFP do you use?
>>>
>>>I was trying to specify the directory this caused the error - my files are in j:\global how do I specify this in the code
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>>The first parameter is tcDir, should give you an idea... :-)
>
>That works - thanks a lot

You're welcome.