>Dear Cetin Thank you, but how do I declare the variables for the directories and text files. I assume I must do that first ?
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>Thanks.
>
>
>Phil

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Phil,
Declarations for variables can be done but not necessary all the time.
lcDir = getdir()
Declares variable 'lcDir' and assigns value of getdir() result. You could say (and better do it that way) :

local lcDir
m.lcDir = getdir()

m.lcDir variable type is determined by the value assigned (here character as getdir() returns).

You could also say for your case (where path is already known) :

m.lcDir = 'c:\data\'
_AppendFiles(m.lcDir)

function _AppendFiles
lparameters tcPath
local lnFiles, ix
m.lnFiles = adir(aTextFiles, m.tcPath+'*.txt')
for m.ix =  1 to m.lnFiles
 wait window nowait 'Appending : '+m.tcPath+aTextFiles[m.ix,1] 
 append from (m.tcPath+aTextFiles[m.ix,1]) delimited with character :
endfor
wait clear

Cetin