You could always output the results of DIR C:\TEMP To a file and load that in a temp table If any of the lines contain <DIR> then it is a directory. If not, you can safely delete it and create the directory.
Dennis McGrath ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 9:19 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Checking for a subdirectory in Rbase 9 Bill: One word of caution using the technique below. CHKFILE does not distinguish between checking for a file and checking for a directory. I always used this code to check for the existence of a C:\TEMP directory (my usual Scratch directory) and create it if it doesn't exist. One user would always have program crashes, and it turns out that he had no C:\TEMP directory, but he had a file on his computer called C:\TEMP with no extension! So it never created the directory! What are the odds? I thought at first I could do "ERASE C:\TEMP" first, thinking it would not remove the directory and I specified no files to erase, but it turns out that that erases all the files in that directory, so that's not good either... So I take my chances that it'll never happen again. Karen Bill, Use the CHKFILE function of R:BASE to achieve your goal. Here's how: SET VAR vChkFile = (CHKFILE('G:\AC')) IF vChkFile <>1 THEN MD G:\AC ENDIF That's all there is to it! Very Best R:egards, Razzak.
