I'm having problems with the "Send Event" script step in FileMaker Pro 8 
Advanced (running on Windows XP). I am using the following three script 
steps to copy an existing text file from one folder to another folder and 
rename the copied file to give it a ".html" extension. The "Send Event" step 
makes use of the Windows command processor. The three script steps are shown 
below.

Set Variable [$cmdstring1; Value:"cmd /c copy " & "\"" & $pathstring1 & 
"*.txt\" & " \"" & $pathstring2 & "*.html\""]
Send Event ["avet"; "odoc"; $cmdstring1]
Pause/Resume Script [Duration (seconds): 3]

Everything works fine as long as I place the "Pause" step after the "Send 
Event" step to give the system time to execute the command before going on 
to the next script step. However, this seems to be a real Kludge and there 
must be a more elegant way to accomplish the same thing (without plug-ins). 
Also, I suspect that the required delay in the "Pause" step would be highly 
dependent on the speed of the system the script runs on. Any suggestions or 
ideas?

Thanks,

Sam McSpadden