Check the file attributes. Maybe it's marked hidden or system?
Try from command window with harcoded path ? FILE("x"\dir1\subdir\..\screen.spr")

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>This is urgent and driving me crazy. The following code
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>

>	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
>

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>The IF FILE() works on a PIII 550 W2K Machine and fails
>on a 486 12MB RAM W98 machine. I tried relative path
>as specified above as well as IF FILE(m.zscrname + ".spr")
>but none of them work on the W98 machine