Maybe I am missing something here but the equivalent commnad in VFP for that kind of behavior is

COPY TO (FileName) DELIMITED WITH " " WITH CHARACTER " "

Hope this helps.

>>The FP DOS COPY TO (FileName) DELIMITED WITH BLANK command does not put double quotes around character fields as advertised in the help file. That problem has been fixed in VFP. I am converting a program from DOS to VFP that uses the broken COPY TO command. Does anyone know how to create a COPY TO command in VFP that emulates the old DOS commnad?
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>>Thank you.
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>Hi Dennis,
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>That's not an easy task, unfortunately, if you have huge files. I have a FAQ here how to do it for huge files (more than 16MB). For small files you can use strtofile filetostr approach showed by John Koziol. I believe David Frankenbach have another solution on his site (see link from my FAQ).