>>>does the following work as well?
>>>
>>>

>>>mytest = lcPath + "\nul.txt"      && nul.txt should exist in every directory!
>>>if file(mytest) then && dir exists
>>>    copy file (myhappyfile) to (lcPath)
>>>else
>>>    md lcPath
>>>    copy file (myhappyfile) to (lcPath)
>>>endif
>>>

>>>
>>
>>Nope - just go to an NT box and check for "C:\nul.txt".
>
>Drop the ".txt" part and it works. In fact, you could also use other device names like CON, AUX, PRN etc.
>?FILE("C:\NUL")
>

I think you'd better check on an NT system - FILE('C:\NUL') returns .F.

VFP 6, NT 4.0 Build 1381, SP4, both WS and Server,