yes I am using floppies. I have tried several different sets of them with the same results. When I copied all of the files from the directory that contained the files I want to distribute and moved them to another pc to create the floppies it worked fine. This leads me to believe I have a problem with VFP and a simple reinstall didn't help. I think I will have to delete my VFP directory and try reinstalling again. I don't know.