>>I have a subdirectories on my machine f:\develop\myWork\temp and ..\data
>>
>>? directory('f:\develop\myWork\data') returns .T.
>>? directory('f:\develop\myWork\temp') returns .F. (sometimes .T.)?
>>? directory('data') returns .T.
>>? directory('temp') returns .F. (sometimes .T.)?
>>
>>What gives? I need to know if temp exists, if it doesn't I want to create it on the fly.
>>
>>Does anyone have a better solution to directory()? I don't trust it.
>>
>>Robert
>Seeing even fullpath declaration fails for only "temp" I have a silly idea. Might any code RDing and MDing between these "? directory()" (Code may belong to someone else mapping to this work dir)?
>Cetin
And anyway for a solution I would do

cTempFile = "t"+sys(2015)+".tmp"
handle=fcreate("f:\develop\mywork\temp\"+cTempFile)
if handle >= 0
  =fclose(handle)
  erase (cTempFile)
else
  if adir("f:\develop\mywork\temp\") = 0  && Dir might exist but RO
    md "f:\develop\mywork\temp"
  endif
endif

Cetin