Yuri,
Although your suggestion was not what I was looking for, your results of running the command in 3 versions made me think that I may have been automating a different version of VFP that I was running. I looked and there it was, VFP6 was being automated. I just uninstalled and reinstalled VFP7 and the problem was solved!

Thanks for checking it out and jogging my brain!
Tony

>Tony,
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>I have three versions (5,6,7) of VFP installed on the very same PC. All of them I call the very same way (using configuration setting). And guess what? VFP5 and VFP7 give me table_name.def as you wish, but VFP6 - table_name.def.dbf!
>So, I would follow exactly as it is documented, CREATE FILENAME.. meaning without extension, I believe.
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>>Using VFP7 on Windows 2000 Pro
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>>The following line:
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>>CREATE (lcTable) FROM DbfStru
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>>is causing me grief. lcTable = "c:\somepath\sometable.def" which results in the table being created as: "c:\somepath\sometable.def.dbf" and "sometable.def.fpt". The strange thing is that this only hapens sometimes, and so far only on one machine. So does anyone have a clue here, or should I just insert a file() test and rename the files?
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>>TTTIA
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>>Tony