Hello Brett;

I actually did not know, so I performed a few tests. Yep, the copy command fully executes before the next line in your program is executed. This makes good sense because VFP cannot possibly know whether your next executable instruction requires the results of your copy.

This is still some disk activity at the time the next line executes, but I believe this is the result of Windows' buffering. The newly created table exists on the disk (in a buffer actually) as far as VFP is concerned.

Regards,

JME