does the path exist (note the leading backslash)? Do you have create rights on the folder?

>I want to create a table with a date-stamp name. I tried the following code and I keep getting a "Cannot create file error". Can anyone help me? (I'm using VFP7)
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>pay_dbf="\data\PR"+RIGHT(DTOS(Date()),6)+".dbf"
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>Copy file payroll to &pay_dbf
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>Thanks in Advance