Hi Sergey

>You can use the same code that _cdir uses for the include file skeleton.

...
>	FOR x=1 TO ALEN(taPattern)
>		IF LIKE(taPattern[x], lcFileName)
>			llExclude = .T.
>			EXIT
>		ENDIF
>	ENDFOR
>

Okay thanks for the pointer. I will give it a try. Also is there a utility liek Arj32 but freeware. I have tried 7z command line version but it has a lot of limitations, PKZip DOS is very old and anyway shareware.