>Ed - I am using VFP 7 SP1. Also, Nadya has suggested hardcoding the path, which I did. It worked. I also had to change the name of the file i.e., from Process*.dat to Process*.* and it copied them properly. The only problem is that I need them as sdf files and not as the regular textfiles, which is why the code could not locate the files to copy in teh first instance. should I add "type sdf" somewhere in the code? Thanks
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Nope - an SDF file is nothing more or less than a text file with a fixed number of characters per line.