>>>I was refering to yours modification. However Cetin's code has the same probem. It'll check if file 'EMPS.exe' exists anywhere along VFP search path. To check for a file in specific location, you can use SYS(2000) or ADIR()
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>>Tssk tssk:) I think you made a typo.
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>>lcFileName = "AlocalFile.txt"
>>STRTOFILE("Are you sure?",m.lcfileName)
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>>? "Exists in search path",;
>> FILE(m.lcfileName)
>>? "Exists in the same folder where exe is",;
>> FILE(forcepath(m.lcFileName,justpath(application.servername)))
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>>ERASE (m.lcFileName)
>>

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>Hi Cetin,
>
>My point is that FILE() function is not reliable when looking for files in specific place. It could find a file in EXE ignoring path provided or give false positive in the root of drive.
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>CLEAR
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>CD ("C:\temp")
>MD temp2
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>lcFilePath = FULLPATH("") + "\temp2"
>lcFileName = "AlocalFile.txt"
>STRTOFILE("Are you sure?", "temp2\" + m.lcFileName)
>SET PATH TO (lcFilePath  )
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>? "Exists in drive root", FILE(JUSTDRIVE(_VFP.servername) + "\" + m.lcFileName)
>? "Exists in search path", FILE(m.lcfileName)
>? "Exists in the same folder where exe is", ;
>		FILE(forcepath(m.lcFileName,justpath(application.servername)))
>
>ERASE ("temp2\" + m.lcFileName)
>RMDIR temp2
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Sorry I can't see how that shows that it's unreliable checking at a specific path.
Cetin