You're welcome. However it was Yuri who pointed you to the file attributes.

>My pc is win200 pro, I created the file in notepad and saved with extension INI, the system seems to assign certain attributes, that as you said need to be changed.
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>I tried with other INI from other people and the FILE() couldn't find it/them.
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>So, I tried changing the properties of the file and worked !
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>Thanks you !
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>>It works for me. For example,

? file("C:\winnt\win.ini")   && Returns .T.

It's not file extension (INI) but something else.
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>> I found this problem in VFP60 and VFP70 (at least!), the command FILE()
>>>returns .f. if the file has extension INI, I have a file
>>>D:\MQCORE\FTP.INI and is readable and you can open it in notepad, or other application, but this command returns .f., and I noticed other more behave the same
>>>
>>>? FILE("D:\MQCORE\CIC_FTP.INI")
>>>
>>> I want to upload the data to a cursor using the APPEND FROM command, but because of this problem this command pop ups an error message ( you can
>>>try!)
>>>
>>> Is there anybody who had the same problem? how did you resolved?
>>>
>>>Thanks!