Hi Andy,

I'm not sure what you mean because in my tests both commands deleted a file with read-only attributes. Running VFP8SP1 under Win2KSP4.

>DELETE FILE RECYCLE does not respect the readonly attribute.
>DELETE FILE does.
>I have the same results for the ERASE command.
>It does not matter if the files are on a network or on my PC.
>
>Is this supposed to work this way?
>If not, I will report this bug.
>
>Thanks,