Mike,

>Are you aware that GENDBC writes CREATE TABLE 'JUNK' NAME 'MIKEY' (with the quotes) and VFP help shows CREATE TABLE JUNK NAME MIKEY (without the quotes).
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>Both methods seem to work. The quotes are optional. Are they added for support of long file names with spaces? I'm just curious.

Filenames with spaces.

>Seems to me it would be more consistent to use the quotes all the time.

It certainly would be wise to do that in generic code that might have to handle names with spaces.