>Dear Jim
>
>Thanks for replying I'm your student from Appdev, According to your lessons the following should work...
>

>SELECT *,SPACE(8) as nafseq2 from znaf INTO TABLE datax\znaf2
>
>seq=8950
>SCAN
>   seq=seq+1
>   *replace znaf2.nafseq2 WITH ALLTRIM(znaf2.nafseq) IN znaf2 && Why this command is used at all?
    replace nafseq WITH STR(seq,8) 
>ENDSCAN

See inside.
Or

replace NafSeq with str(recno()+8950,8) all