Sorry to trouble all of you and Thanks all of you for your response. I think I'm going dumb but it is a long long story, it started when I wanted to create a Lib of repetitive codes... :-).

Ive got my self to blame when there was a simpler way to go about it

IF !EMPTY(m.zscrname)
...

Thanks for your response to my screams

>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
>>
>>

>>	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