Tim,

No, I'm saying is that I think MS Common Dialog is the more conventional way of doing it. It is part of the Windows platform SDK. getfile() is a function provided with VFP, and it has been around for a while.

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>so what you're saying, there's no conventional way of doing this, so Nadya's prg kind of simulates the true getfile()? I got it to work using below code.
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