>>What is the function to check to see of the PATH is
>>really out there?
>Use something like
>
>is_dir=DIRECTORY('C:\TEMP')
>
>Re: Tempfiles:
>VFP uses the default temp file area used by windows, normally you should have a directory like c:\temp set up and a statement in your autoexec.bat (I believe this is where windows is getting it from) like
>
>SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
>
>
>Everyone should have a temp file on a Local hard drive to minimize network traffic
>
>Remember that the config.fpw is a pre-load file and the tmpfiles setting will override the default and cannot be changed once your program is running. So your testing for a temp directory from your program will not do anything for you. It needs to be set up beforehand.

thanks again Larry.... I have an EXE on my local harddrive and
a DATABASE on a network drive. I am putting in TMPFFLES = C:\MYDIR
in the confir.fpw so the data will return faster. Other than PHDBase, do you know of some other ways to speed thing up?