You're welcome.

>Thank you. I knew that COPY FILE should have worked with a Name Expression but I could not get it to do so. That is why I was assuming that the command did not support it. But.... when you submitted your solution (addbs) I took a closer look at what I was doing. I was specifing the drive letter incorrectly. I was using d: instead of D:\. I really needed to go back to the root of D: in my specification and that was the problem. Thank you for opening my eyes.
>
>Thanx to Selim, Jon and Serg.
>
>
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COPY FILE (addbs(lcFromDrive)+addbs(lcFromDirectory)+lcFromFile) TO (addbs(lcToDrive)+addbs(lcToDirectory)+lcToFile)

>>
>>>How would you handle this?
>>>
>>>lcFromDrive = "C:"
>>>lcFromDirectory = "MyDirectory"
>>>lcFromFile = "MyFile.txt"
>>>
>>>lcToDrive = "D:"
>>>lcToDirectory = "MyOtherDirecotry"
>>>lcToFile = "FilesNewName"
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>I need to copy files from one directory to another while in vfp. The COPY FILE command works great as long as the file I am copying is in the directory that I am operating vfp from. Basically I am looking for a command or work around that permits me to operate vfp from a different directory that the file I am copying and then specify the directory to which I want to copy into.
>>>>>
>>>>>Pseudo Code:
>>>>>Copy C:\MyDirectory\MyFile.txt to d:\MyOtherDirectory\FilesNewName.txt
>>>>>
>>>>>Any thoughts?
>>>>>Neil
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I don't see any reason why you can't use your code to do so
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>Copy file C:\MyDirectory\MyFile.txt to d:\MyOtherDirectory\FilesNewName.txt
>>>>