Simple, elegant and it works. Thanks Ed.
>>Is there any way in VFP6.0 that you can check if a file has finished writing to a directory? We have a program that checks a directory to see if a file has been FTPed in.
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>>I am looking for a way to determine that the file has completed it’s transfer and it is now safe to move or use.
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FUNCTION IsItSoupYet
>LPARAMETER cAbsoluteFilePath
>LOCAL nFH
>nFH = -1
>IF FILE(FULLPATH(cAbsoluteFilePath))
> nFH = FOPEN(FULLPATH(cAbsoluteFilePath),12)
> IF nFH # -1
> =FCLOSE(nFH)
> ENDIF
>ENDIF
>RETURN (nFH # -1)
Steve McMahon
ZDI
San Diego