You didn't mention what NOS (Network Operating System) is running on your server. Making an assumption (i know, i know) that you MAY be running on a Novell server. In some versions, you have to tell the server (or maybe its the client) that you are using Long File Names. FoxPro can do it, as long as the OS does too.

Hope this helps,
James Jernigan
Nashville, TN USA
jrjernigan@hotmail.com

"Too err is human ... I should know, I get to show my humanity everyday." jrj

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>I am trying to write an application to copy files from specified folders on a workstation to a server. I have stored the source and destination paths in an INI file. This way it could be changed easily. I am using Doug Henig's READINI program to read the paths.
>
>The INI file looks like this:
>
>[Server]
>; The above section "Server" must be used
>; The following entry is the Destination path
>
>Directory1 = "D:\temp"
>Directory2 = "D:\temp"
>Directory3 = "D:\temp"
>Directory4 = "D:\temp"
>Directory5 = "D:\temp"
>Directory6 = ""
>
>[HomePath]
>; The following entries indicate files to copy from the workstation
>
>lcHomePath1 = "C:\Renee\Electrocardiogram Report"
>lcHomePath2 = "C:\Renee\Event Monitors"
>lcHomePath3 = "C:\Renee\Lexington Office Records"
>lcHomePath4 = "C:\Renee\Providence Office records"
>lcHomePath5 = "C:\Renee\Chest X-Ray Report"
>lcHomePath6 = ""
>
>
>The Copy program looks like this:
>
>** Get the program server path
>LOCAL lcdirectory1
>lcdirectory1 = ADDBS(ALLTRIM(readini(lcIniFile,'Server','Directory1','%')))
>
>** Get the program home path
>LOCAL lcHomePath1
>lcHomePath1 = ADDBS(ALLTRIM(readini(lcIniFile,'HomePath','lcHomePath1','%')))
>
>WAIT WINDOW "Copying folder " + lcHomePath1 TIMEOUT 5
>lcHomePath1 = "'"+lcHomePath1+"\*.*'"
>lcdirectory1 = "'"+lcdirectory1+"\*.*'"
>COPY FILE &lcHomePath1 TO &lcdirectory1
>
>
>The problem is this works on my computer from the VFP IDE or an EXE. I have setup the same directory structure on another machine and I get the following message:
>
>"File C:\Renee\Electrocardiogram Report\*.* does not exist." It looks like I have two problems 1) why does it work on my machine and not anywhere else? 2) How can I copy files from one directory to another when the directories could be more than 8 characters?