Thanks for the reply! No, I am pretty sure there are no blanks in the file name. I rebooted my PC and the file magically disappeared! It must have been Win98 acting crazy.


>>I am copying and erasing files that have long file names. They are BMP
>>files with name as YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.BMP. I did think it was any problems
>>until today when I tried to ERASE a file and it wouldn't do it. I then
>>tried 200204~1.bmp and it worked. Why did this just show up now? How am I
>>going to program that file name?
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>Any chance of an embedded blank in the filename? That can cause problems.
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>IAC, you should be able to use ERASE with the long file name, but surround it with quotes to be sure it can handle whatever's there:
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>cFileName = '"' + cFileName + '"'
>ERASE (cFileName)
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>Tamar