Here's a long shot for ya. . .

could the file name be starting with a reserved word for the command, like "FIELDS", "FOR", "TYPE" etc?

good luck


>It compiles now, but I still get an error at runtime (no spaces in file name). I'm also using VFP7.
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>>It compiled on my machine WIN2K/VFP7.0
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>>Just on a chance try &lcFile instead. I have found occasional inconsistencies with macro expansions using & versus ().