James,

I don't know why its not working, but I'd suggest that you eliminate macro substition completely. Are there spaces in lcCommand?

DO (lcCommand)

>Can anyone tell me why the following code works in debug but not in the exe?
>
>lcFile = ALLTRIM(cText)
>lcPrg = JUSTSTEM(lcFile) + ".prg"
>lcCommand = "'" + lcPrgDir + lcPrg + "'"
>DO &lcCommand