>Fred,
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>I've run into problems when I've had the path in the arguments of FILE()
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>Cheers,
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>Andrew
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>>>The second problem sounds like either a pathing issue, or that you've compiled the file into the app/exe and it's not physically on the disk.
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>>Andrew, FILE() always returns .t. for files built into the .APP/.EXE file. At least in my experience, that's true.

FILE() returns .t. if you only specify a filename, no path, if it's imbedded in the .EXE for sure. If you specify a path, it looks at that path for the file. Maybe it has trouble with long filenames, or paths with imbedded spaces, but I've never seen that.