>I would suggest you look at the value returned from DBF().
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>Since 32 bit windows, Long File Names have been permitted. No great shakes unless there are embedded spaces in the path / file name(s).
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>I am postulating that the value returned from DBF looks something like:
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> C:\Program Files\Bruce\Data\contract.dbf
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>Notice the blank between 'Program' and 'Files'.
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>You can test for this and embed the string in quote marks to avoid the problem.

You may be right, though it's a little strange for a cursor to have that problem - the temp directory would have to be set to one as you describe...never seen anything like that done, but it's possible...