>Hmm. Ignoring the fact that it's unnecessary, I'd have sworn there was a native VFP function to return the Windows directory, a SYS() function if not one with a more 'friendly' name. But I just went searching in help and couldn't find any such thing. Was I having another psychotic episode? (* sigh *)
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>Rich

I thought the same too so, before my original reply, I scanned the help for all the SYS() functions and all the obvious topics (where it SHOULD be).