>Just wanted to add that this is the best way especially when directory are file names are involved, as the macro expansion will not work if the directory or file has spaces in the name.

Ahem?

strtofile('Test doc', 'c:\vfp test.txt')
lcFile = 'c:\vfp test.txt'
copy file "&lcFile" to 'c:\vfptest.txt'

Just playing with ya', Trey, I agree with what you said (although this does worl).