>I've forgotten the trick of doing a
>
>copy to test
>
>and end up with a comma delimited text file that DOES NOT have the quotes around the text fields.
>
>In Excel, save as csv gets me what I want, that is, no quotes.

In VFP 7

COPY TO mytxt.txt DELIMITED WITH "" WITH CHARACTER ','

For previous versions of VFP see mskb#Q277725 and faq #8016. If text file isn't big you can use combination of Filetostr(), chrtran() and strtofile() to get rid of quotes after file is created.