>I am finding shelling out to DOS in my VFP application (under WinNT) to change file attributes from ReadOnly to ReadWrite to be a drag! I don't want to have a DOS window pop up on the screen, and when I use RUN /N2, the command doesn't always finish by the time I need to delete the file in code (yech). There must be some programmatic method to do this:
>
>If ReadOnly
> Make ReadWrite
>EndIf
>
>Even if I have to resort to an API!?!?
>
>TIA

Michael,

There is an API call SetFileAttribute which you pass it the file name and a DWORD value containing the combined attributes. See Win32API help file for further info.