>How would I check to see if there is a diskette in Drive A and if there is how do
>I check to see if there is enough space for me on that diskette to download a file?

While you can use DISKSPACE() to determine if sufficient space is available, if the platform is Windows NT, you'll need to use the SetErrorMode() API call to disable the "ugliest dialog know to man"< g >. See MS KB article Q191501.

If the Windows Script Host is an option, you'd simply

oFSO = CREATEOBJECT('Scripting.FileSysteObject')
IF oFSO.DriveExists('A')
  oDrive = oFSO.GetDrive('A')
  ? oDrive.IsReady
ENDIF