>Hi Borissov.
>it gave me the same message as before:
>command contains unrecognized phrase/keyword
>
>it seems that it can`t handle this characters: "¡‚"
>the command was:
>STRTOFILE(CHRTRAN(FILETOSTR("D:\switch\from\2005Ch041119.001"),"¡‚"," "),"Ch041119.new")
>
>thanks

Just a wild thought you can try: instead of quotes use brackets:

STRTOFILE(CHRTRAN(FILETOSTR("D:\switch\from\2005Ch041119.001"),[¡‚],"         "),"Ch041119.new")