Tracy,

You've got to store the result of strtran() to a string variable...see lines near bottom...

< update >But since I'm not sure what you're trying to do, I'm not sure if the syntax within the strtran() is right either.

>This is even stranger, it obviously makes the change at the top of the code and at the end of the code, but it writes it to the file without the change:
>
>

>clear
>BG_ACCUWIN="C:\FOXPRO\TMP\"
>lcline=""
>lccode="REM Test.txt"+CHR(13)
>lccode=lccode+"COPY %1 <<IMPORTPATH>> <<IMPORTFILE>>"
>?STRTRAN(lccode,"<<IMPORTPATH>><<IMPORTFILE>>",BG_ACCUWIN+"ACCUWIN.TXT",1)
>?STRTRAN(lccode,"<<IMPORTPATH>> <<IMPORTFILE>>",BG_ACCUWIN+"ACCUWIN.TXT",1)
>m.handle=FCREATE("test.txt")
>FOR i = 1 TO LEN(lccode)
>	IF ASC(SUBSTR(lccode,i,1))=13 .OR. ASC(SUBSTR(lccode,i,1))=13
>		lcline=lcline+CHR(13)+CHR(10)
>	ELSE
>		lcline=lcline+SUBSTR(lccode,i,1)
>	ENDIF
>ENDFOR
lcLine = STRTRAN(lcline,"<<IMPORTPATH>><<IMPORTFILE>>",BG_ACCUWIN+"ACCUWIN.TXT",1)
lcLine = STRTRAN(lcline,"<<IMPORTPATH>> <<IMPORTFILE>>",BG_ACCUWIN+"ACCUWIN.TXT",1)
>=FPUTS(m.handle,lcline)
>=FCLOSE(m.handle)
>MODIFY COMMAND test.txt
>