I am being afraid of spaces in path names (in combination with FoxPro or VFP). However, I am now experimenting, and fullpath(lcFile) works fine, even in folders with spaces. I am not sure what is going on on your machine.

I am doing the testing wth VFP6, no SP.

In case you use curdir(), watch out for the fact that it doesn't include the drive letter.

>Hi Hilmar,
>
>I wondered about that myself, but since I'm making an exe that will be downloaded and installed on anyone's computer, I have no choice. InstallShield uses the user's default Program Files folder.
>
>Do you know of a way around it?
>I finally just quit using fullpath() and just tack curdir() on to the frontof the filename.
>
>
>>I have noticed in the past that spaces in path names cause problems, and should therefore be avoided. Perhaps this is causing problem here. In your case, it is the space in "Program Files".
>>
>>>I'm using VFP 7.0
>>>
>>>When I compile my exe, fullpath() quits working properly.
>>>Before running the exe I move my developement folder so the exe cannot find it.
>>>I move c:\myFolder to c:\Temp\myFolder
>>>I run the exe from "c:\Program Files\my2ndFolder"
>>>

>>>lparameters tcText
>>>local lcText, lcFile
>>>
>>>lcFile = 'myFile.HTML'
>>>lcText = TEXTMERGE( tcText ,.T. )
>>>STRTOFILE( lcText ,lcFile )
>>>
>>>lcFile = FULLPATH( lcFile )
>>>return lcFile
>>>

>>>This returns "c:\myFolder\myFile.HTML", even though "c:\myFolder" doesn't exist.
>>>I've verified that curdir() = "c:\Program Files\my2ndFolder".
>>>I have "use default directory" unchecked in my options.
>>>If it returned "c:\Program Files\my2ndFolder\myFile.HTML", I would infer that it wasn't finished saving it on disk.
>>>
>>>TIA