>Hey Michael,
>
>Thanks for the reply. That helped.
>
>I am trying to get a handle on the files that are "dropped for the ftp site". so...
>
>lcFileName = oDataObject.GetData("UniformResourceLocator")
>
>This gets me a string like this:
>
>
>?lcFileName
>ftp://server/folder/filename
>
>But I can't seem to do this:
>
>
>Copy File &lcFileName TO c:\myfile.txt
>
>

Several things suggest themselves here; the first is not to use macro expansion:

COPY FILE (lcFileName) TO c:\myfile.txt

The second is that the ftp: notation may fail if DNS is not used to resolve UNCs; you may need to convert the URL to a UNC that is transport-layer independent, or resolve the server address as a NetBIOS address and share name.