>>Safer? What exactly would that mean in this case? it's easy enough to put a Try/Catch around it should there be errors ... what else would one be protecting against?
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>The case when there may already be a file, potentially with nasty attributes (hidden, protected, system), name of which may collide with the attempted directory name.
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>Just try
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c="some.tmp"
>strtofile("whatever", c)
>md (c)

>Not tested, but I guess you wouldn't get an error, yet your directory wouldn't be created.

It gives an error.