You can also use LLFF. Here's a sample code.

lnIn = FOPEN(lctempfilename)
lnOut = FCREATE(lcnewFileName,2)
DO WHILE NOT FEOF(lnIn )
  FPUT(lnOut, CHRTRAN(FGET(lnIn,1024), ["], []))
ENDDO
FCLOSE(lnIn)
FCLOSE(lnOut)

You'l have to add some error handling to it.
>Thanks. This gives me a place to start...unfortunately I'm still in 6.0, but will keep trying.
>Becky
>
>>See Re: Copy to COMMA DELIMTED but no quotes around char Message #609218.
>>
>>>I have a dbf of about 80,000 500-byte records that needs to be written out to an ASCII text file for upload to another system. They want it comma delimited WITHOUT the quotes on text fields. When I do the COPY TO DELIMITED, I get the quotes around the fields.
>>>
>>>I have tried the strtofile function below which works on smaller files but on one this large, I get an out of memory error.
>>>
>>>Is there some way to parse the file and do it a little at a time? Or is there a better way to get an ASCII file.
>>>
>>>Thanks for any help you can give me.....here's what I tried:
>>>
>>>llReturn=strtofile(strtran(filetostr(lctempfilename),["],''),lcnewFileName)
>>>
>>>Becky