No, hitting the ENDSCAN does an implicit SELECT ZoneList.
>Pamela don't you need to SELECT ZoneList before ENDSCAN?
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>> USE zonelist
>> SCAN
>> tmpzone = zone
>> tmpfile = "zone" + alltrim(tmpzone) + ".dbf"
>> wait window "DBF = " + tmpfile
>> tmpfile2 = "zone" + alltrim(tmpzone) + ".txt"
>> wait window "TXT = " + tmpfile2
>> IF FILE("&tmpfile2")
>> wait window "txt file exist for " + tmpzone
>> DELETE FILE "&tmpfile2"
>> ENDIF
>> wait window "generate txt file for " + tmpzone
>> USE "&tmpfile"
>> COPY TO "&tmpfile2" type delimited
>> ENDSCAN
-cjh