>>In VFP6, cd ? presents the current directory as the 'root'.
>>In VFP8, cd ? has some sort of algorithm which will present either the current drive's root directory as 'root' or the 'My Computer' as 'root'
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>Would CD GETDIR() work for you?

Yepp! Thanks.

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>>In VFP6, justStem() on a directory return the right most directory name.
>>In VFP8, justStem() on a directory returns an empty string.
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>The justStem() function doesn't know if the parameter passed is file name, directory or something else so it's not clear what you mean.

In VFP8, justStem("c:\dir\lvl\") return empty
but
justStem("c:\dir\lvl") return "lvl"

So , I adjusted the code to justStem( set('directory') )