David,
To be sure just tried again with exactly these lines :

use employee
COPY TO dsstemp.txt TYPE DELIMITED WITH "" WITH CHARACTER "~"

It errors 'Command contains unrecognized phrase/keyword. If I make it :

COPY TO dsstemp.txt TYPE DELIMITED WITH " " WITH CHARACTER "~"

It works inserting a space instead of doublequotes.
Cetin

>Cetin,
>
>Hmmm... I ran this code last night and it worked just fine with no syntax error.
>
>>>

>>>COPY TO dsstemp.txt TYPE DELIMITED WITH "" WITH CHARACTER "~"
>>>STRTOFILE(STRTRAN(FILETOSTR('dsstemp.txt'), '~', '|^'),'dsstemp.txt')
>>>MODI FILE dsstemp.txt
>>>

>>
>>David,
>>During FoxyClasses importer creation I played with this a lot and unfortunately it syntax errors. If you put a space in quotes it works but than extra spaces are inserted.
>>Cetin