Hi John,

Most - if not all of the time - Set Compatible should be Off anyway.



>>Hi John,
>>
>>>I am trying to verify if a file is present on the disk. I have tried FILE() but it also checks along the path and returns true if it finds the file anywhere. If I have a full file name how can I verify that it is present on the disk?
>>
>>If you pass the full path and name to FILE() it should not look anywhere else. Alternatively you can use ADIR():
>>

>>LOCAL laFile[1]
>>IF ADIR(laFile,"MyFile") > 0
>>   * File does exist
>>ENDIF

>>Christof
>
>Thanks for the reply Christof. I looked in the help file for FILE() and found that it will ignore the drive and path if set compatable is off...
>
>Thanks