Hi David
GotReadURL to work, thanks.
It stopped returning the text file yesterday. Found out later it was my fault. (I forgot that file names on the Web site are Case sensitive. .)
So in the meantime I was debugging the ReadURL routine and it stopped executing the ReadURL.prg. It's like the Cursor was read only. I broke the command in two, saving ReadURL to a variable and it worked fine. (See the code below). This work-around works for me, but am curious. Any idea what caused the replace command to not execute the ReadURL.prg?
Bill

LOCAL lcText
lcText = ""
lcText = ReadURL("http://www.FOOD.com/FOOD.txt")
STRTOFILE(lcText, lcTextFile, 0)

*!* CREATE CURSOR xtemp (mtemp m)
*!* replace mtemp WITH ReadURL("http://www.FOOD.com/FOOD.txt")
*!* COPY MEMO mtemp TO (lcTextFile)