>I've noticed that SYS(2023) returns different results on different PCs.
>Sometimes it returns long directory names and other times is returns the directory concatenated directory with ~ in it. Anyone know why it works this way and how I can make be consistant? This is VFP7

It's been that way since VFP 3.0, and you're just now noticing? :-) The OS is probably the variable here, but I don't know how to make it consistent.