>Len,
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>>Not so much a solution as a workaround - if macros don't work then don't use them.
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>I'm sorry, but it is not a workaround. If you or Andrew understood what macro substitution meant in VFP and how spaces in a file path affect things it would be more obvious to you what the error is.
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>set default to C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player && fails
>set default to "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player" && works
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>lcpath = "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player"
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>set default to &lcPath && fails
>set default to (lcPath) && works beautifully because name substitution is the best way to handle this
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>?curdir()
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>lcPath = ["C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player"]
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>set default to &lcPath && works because of the "
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>?curdir()
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>>but her theory behind the original problem is as dubious as Andrews.
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>Her theory is much more sound than the random babblings that have been pondered elsewhere in this thread

So why doesn't SET DEFAULT TO SYS(5) work - no question about name expressions or macro substitution. She didn't answer the entire problem. SYS(5) doesn't return spaces (AFAIK), so her theory is only partly right.