Did you try FILE(...) from the command window?
Did you try to use ADIR() instead?
What is directory tree or full path for this file?

>Please help Im desperate.
>
>I am posting this again under a different subject but this is crazy. It is an old code which is unchanged only thing I have changed is from w98 to w2k on my development machine and, the logic works on the w2k machine but has stopped working on other w98 machine.
>
>Dear All
>
>This is urgent and driving me crazy. The following code
>
>
> SELECT (m.zsavesele1)
>
> SCAN FOR &ztransfld. = &zourfield.
> IF FILE("sprs\" + m.zscrname + ".spr")
> DO deleteothers IN (m.zscrname + ".spr")
> ENDIF
>
>
> SELECT (m.zsavesele1)
>
> DELETE
> ENDSCAN
>
>The IF FILE() works on a PIII 550 W2K Machine and fails
>on a 486 12MB RAM W98 machine, MMX machine. I tried relative path
>as specified above as well as IF FILE(m.zscrname + ".spr"), IF FILE("..\sprs\"+ m.zscrname + ".spr"), with without UPPER() for the file string
>
>but none of them work on the W98 machine