>Don't know if this one has been reported already:
>
>go to a subdirectory
>find a file it contains, e.g. HelloWorld.txt , but that is not on "c:\"
>mv="C:\HelloWorld.txt"
>? File(mv) returns .T. seems to ignore the path..

What's your path setting in VFP? If the file is any of the folders of your set path, FILE() will return .T..

Update:

This has been true for FILE() as long as it's been around (all versions of FoxPro).