>>Not wishing to be impolite, I hesitate to suggest that you should take another look at the manual, and perhaps choose a function more suited to the task of determining, wheter or not a file is present on disk.
>>
>>There is no better function than adir() to check if a file exists or not. File() is not reliable, because it will search the complete path even though you specify another path. So file('c:\temp\myfile.txt') will return true even if c:\temp\myfile.txt does not exist, as long as myfile.txt if found in any directory in your path.
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>I prefer SYS(2000,[full path here]) > 0

That's the fine thing with Fox, there are (almost) always more than one way to get the same result.


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>>>Mohammed,
>>>
>>>I'm sorry - I was a bit hasty in my first answer.
>>>
>>>You should still look at your if...endif's, but also:
>>>
>>>Exactly what do you expect ADIR() to do for you in this context?
>>>
>>>Not wishing to be impolite, I hesitate to suggest that you should take another look at the manual, and perhaps choose a function more suited to the task of determining, wheter or not a file is present on disk.
>>>
>>>>hi all,
>>>>
>>>>i try to keep the Cursor at text1 if the file found,
>>>>but it complate all the code.
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>if adir(dummy,lcFile)>0
>>>>        MESSAGEBOX(" file exists")
>>>>        THISFORM.TEXT1.SetFocus()
>>>>       * RETURN
>>>>    else
>>>>        COPY  TO (gcDelimName) XL5
>>>>    ENDIF
>>>> endif
>>>>.
>>>>.
>>>>.
>>>>.
>>>>.
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>thanks for help.