>Fcreate create a file without the leading space.
>Fopen and Fwrite don't treat file names, just content.
>Erase &cFileName is like Erase (2 spaces) filename and is treated like 1 space
>FileToStr reads the file properly
>
>Still no way to delete or rename the file

cFile="  file with two spaces in front.txt"
CLEAR
=STRTOFILE("just testing", cFile)
?"created, exists?",FILE(cfile)
ERASE (cFile)
?"erased (cFile), still exists?",FILE(cfile)
=STRTOFILE("just testing", cFile)
?"created, exists?",FILE(cfile)
ERASE "&cFile"
?"erased '&cFile', still exists?",FILE(cfile)

Here it just does it right - I'm getting

created, exists? .T.
erased (cFile), still exists? .F.
created, exists? .T.
erased '  file with two spaces in front.txt', still exists? .F.

Tested in VFP7 on W2000 SP1 WS.
Are you sure those two leading characters are actually spaces and not some weird characters?