>If the user doesn't have rights to a directory, at least on Novell, they can't see it. IOW, it's as if the directory doesn't exist. I don't know if this helps or not.
Hi Geo!
that's what I was getting at... FILE() should work just fine, especially if you use UNC instead of counting on local drive mappings that can get trashed over time.
Roxanne M. Seibert
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