Subject Re: DOS command From Mervyn Bick <invalid@invalid.invalid> Date Sat, 25 Jun 2022 17:27:02 +0200 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 2022/06/25 15:07, ED FURCHE wrote: > Why doesn't  this work? >       stname="g:\excel\cash012022.csv" >       stname="!XCOPY " + stname + " G:\CASH.CSV" >       !stname !stname is equivalent to RUN stname RUN is used to execute a program outside dBASE or an Operating System command.  (See the help file.) stname is neither a program nor an Operating System command so nothing happens. Mervyn.