>Use DIRECTORY(). It works just like FILE(). It was introduced in (I think) VFP 5.
>
>If you are using a version of FP/VFP which does not support DIRECTORY(), use FILE() and search for the NUL file. For instance,
>

FILE("C:\MYFOLDER\NUL")

>should return .T. if C:\MyFolder exists and .F. otherwise.
>zahid

Zahid,

This does not work in all OS's (like NT or W2K). You can use ADIR() to check for the existance of a folder.

IF ADIR(aTemp,"C:\MyFolder","D")=1

then folder exists.


>
>>I know you can use the FILE() command to check to see if a file exists, but how can you check to see if a folder exists and create it if it does not? Nothing I have tried works.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>Colombo.