>Hi all:
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>The users choses a directory from within which all files starting with , say, "P_" are to be selected and processed one by one (meaning the contents of the selected file will be inserted into another table). so on an so forth, till all the files in the user defined directory have been processed.
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>How should I approach this problem?
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>Thank you for your advise.

Research the two VFP commands
ADIR and SYS(2000)
I like to use ADIR since it gives additinal information. And it's an Array allowing APPEND FROM ARRAY easily.

Tracy