Ken, thank you for your response. I appreciate your time. I have been working with the code you gave me below. I have it working except I still have to respond to what I believe are foxpro errors. Such as 'Input/output operation error'. I set an ON ERROR * to snub foxpro which worked. What I was wondering was have I misread the SetErrorMode(1) part? It seems to work the same way with a 1 or a 2. Has fox already intercepted the system error?

Again thanks I am farther along then I have been. <s>

BTW What API book are you using?

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>I'm not sure if this will help any, but there is an API call that will
>supress the "Disk is not in Drive" error message...
>
>Example:
>
>DECLARE SetErrorMode IN "kernel32.dll" INTEGER test
>DECLARE INTEGER GetLastError IN "Kernel32.dll"
>DECLARE INTEGER FormatMessage IN "kernel32.dll" INTEGER flags, INTEGER
>notused, INTEGER error, INTEGER locale, STRING @buffer, INTEGER bufsize,
>INTEGER notused
>
>= SetLastError(0)
>= SetErrorMode(1)
>nFiles = ADIR(afiles, "A:\*.*")
>IF nFiles = 0
> nLastError = GetLastError()
> cError = SPACE(255)
> = FormatMessage( 4096, 0, nLastError, 0, @cError, 255, 0)
> cError = ALLTRIM(STRTRAN( cError, CHR(0)))
> WAIT WINDOW "Error Code: " + ALLTRIM(STR(nLastError)) + CHR(13) + "Error:
>" + cError
> = SetErrorMode(1)
> = SetLastError(0)
>ENDIF