Good questions. I checked the return value. Zero. The return value on the Win98 PC was greater than zero and, per my calculation, was correct. Before that I searched the entire PC for the file. None found. I checked the value of the edit box by popping in a button that popped up the value. The value was just as seen on screen.

>Hi Greg,
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>What is return value from STRTOFILE() when file isn't created?
>Maybe current directory somehow changed and file was created but not in the directory you expected?
>
>>I use the following statement in a form. ItemNumbers is an edit box. It has been serving its purpose quite neatly until now.
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>>=STRTOFILE(THISFORM.OrderPageFrame.Page2.ItemNumbers.Value,'items.txt')
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>>I spent the last hour observing it fail. I have isolated the issue to this specific statement as I can view from Windows Explorer the items.txt file. Interestingly, this statement only works once for this form. When it is executed again, the items.txt file is not created.
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>>I have been banging my head trying to figure this out. Finally, I ran the exact same app on a different machine. It worked!
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>>The app that choked on this was running on a Win2000 machine. The app that ran this fine is on a Win98 machine.
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>>Any suggestions?