Yo Chris:

Thanks for that - its a great help to know.

>>I currently use Strtofile() to create a file in a specified directory. The specified directory name is a table based parameter that is concatenated to a file name to use as the "FilePath\Filename" in Strtofile(). I will soon require to create the file on another server and wondered whether Strtofile() supports UNC names as part of the target path/file name?
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>>Any advice appreciated.
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>I just tested this on my nextwork and it worked:
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>lnCharsWritten = STRTOFILE(lcString, "\\SAMMY\Temp\Test.prg")