Thanks Nick & Menachem for your thoughts but in this case we really need to do this without writing fxps to disk.

This is for a VFP Web server, the idea being that each .htm file encountered (which could contain VFP code inside <%code%> delimiters) can be converted into a .prg that returns as it's output the html with all the VFP code interpreted. For best performance it would be best if this were stored as object code and run each time the .htm file is requested.

For security reasons I would very much prefer that neither the .prg nor the .fxp were written into this directory, not even temporarily.

Another problem is that like any Webserver these .htm files are not all going to be in the same place, there will likely be many directories and sub directories containing these.

Regards,
Nick