>Simple, elegant and it works. Thanks Ed.
>

Thanks. Now, after bitching about inadequate testing, this has not been tested under Win2K, and there might be issues if a tool like GetRight is in the loop - GetRight will download segments of a file offered at several sites in parallel, and might write and release the file after each segment finished; I don't know the detailed operations for everything. Most FTP implementations download to a temp file and rename to the real target name on completion, or open it in create mode and write, which would prevent you from opening it in unbuffered read/write mode as shown below.

That should cover it.

>>>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.
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>

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)