>George,
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>Not to rain on the parade here, but, out of curiosity, I tried this code on my Windows2000 Professional box. If I DISKSPACE(tcDrive) and tcDrive does not exist, I get a return value of -1.
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>No errors, no mess. So what am I doing right (or wrong)?
>

It may be that CreateProcess() is by default passing through critical errors to VFP to process; under NT, it fires up an A/R/I messagebox at the OS level in respoonse to no media in the drive.

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>>In light of or more of the recent threads in this area, here's a little something from the "Advisor Tips" section of FPA. As a side note, I find it interesting that Steve Sawyer is no longer the editor of this column.
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>>The title of this gem is "Determine if a Drive Exists". Without getting into any of the text, it has the following RETURN:

RETURN (DISKSPACE(tcDrive) > 0)

where tcDrive is the drive in question.
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>>Only one problem...under NT you get a nasty error dialog if SetErrorMode() isn't properly called (and later restored to it's original state) to disable it.
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>>Now if you're going to be mucking about with API anyway, then...

DECLARE INTEGER GetLogicalDrives IN Win32API
>>RETURN BITTEST(GetLogicalDrives(), ASC(UPPER(tcDrive)) - 65)

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>>gets the job done very cleanly.
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>>Back in the January, 2000 issue, while Steve was still the Contributing Editor, there was a tip that synchronized the VFP _DBLCLICK system variable with the setting the user had established in the Control Panel:

DECLARE INTEGER GetDoubleClickTime IN Win32API
>>_DBLCLICK = GetDoubleClickTime() / 1000