>>Question: IF a user doesn't select a file - but rather types in a non-existent file name - an error is generated. How should I verify that the filename they typed in (for the users that don't simply select the file) is a file that exists in the app directory.
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>To add a qualifier to Mark's suggestion...since FILE() will return .T. if the file lies anywhere on the path, you probably what to check with the explicit path that's allowed.
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>For example:
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>lcFile = GETFILE( [etc.])
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>lcTemp = JUSTFNAME( lcFile )
>lcDir = ?sys(5)+sys(2003)+'\'
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save a little effort - FULLPATH(CURDIR()) will return the current directory properly prefixed without the ambiguity that I've seen arise from using SYS(5) on UNCs where you're working in an unmapped UNC, and terminates cleanly with the \ in all cases. YMMV - I avoid SYS(5) like the plague. You can also force the return from GETFILE to specify a FULLPATH() IAC, so the following is better form from my POV at least:

lcFile = FULLPATH(GETFILE(blah, blah, woof, woof))
? FILE(lcFile) && never an ambiguity!!!
? FULLPATH(CURDIR()) == JUSTPATH(lcFILE)+'\' && is it here in the current dir?

>IF FILE( lcDir + lcTemp )
> *!* Then you have a valid file
>ENDIF