Hiya Ed ---

>Can we leave it as both work; some people are going to find string concatenation easier to understand, while others will be just as happy to use LLIO, even though it requires the use of some features of VFP that they may not understand, and the problem doesn't always require?

Sounds good to me. Perhaps I just haven't found the right incentive to use STRTOFILE ..... it is new, after all.