>>>I have a situation where there are some files created that have a leading space, eg. " JUNK.DBF". Is there a way to delete this file programmaticly using VFP5? Delete file, !del, and RENAME seem to have no affect. I am able to delete them with Explorer but I don't want the user to have to deal with it.
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>>>Thanks!
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>>I would like to know how someone was able to start a file name with a space. You can probably enclose the name in quotes to do it -- erase " junk.dbf"
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>I've created such things from GWBasic and FP 1.02 - when they created files for themselves, you could stuff any kind of junk into the filename. Don't remember which I used in GWB, but in FP it could be Set Alte To "one two.txt" - and it created such a file. Happened couple of times.

I also was able to do that, but I could never create one that started with a space. The leading space just disappeared.