Actually, Kees, it's a lot easier than that. You merely need to state:

if there is a file <pathName> then
  -- do something
end if

Ain't Revolution grand? :-)

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kees van Eekelen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 4:50 AM
Subject: (no subject)


> L.S.
> 
> if one wants to check if a file is present in some distant (system) 
> folder, one has to use a construction like:
> 
>          put the directory into tDirectory -- 
> remember where I an now
>          set the directory to specialFolderPath(Extension) -- 
> move to the target folder
>          if "my Target File" is not in the files then -- 
> check if it's there
> -- do something
>            set the directory to tDirectory -- 
> and go back to where we came from
> 
> Now wouldn't it be nice if the 'files()' function used an argument 
> for the target directory (none is current dir.), so that we can write:
> 
>         if "my Target File" is not in 
> files(specialFolderPath(Extension)) then -- check if it's there
> -- do something
> 
> One can always use files() (no argument) for the current dir, and be 
> backward compatible as well :-)
> 
> Shouldn't be too difficult, should it ?
> 
> 
> Greetings, Kees
> -- 
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>    Faculty of Social Sciences
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