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From: rvdv@ktibv.uucp (Richard van der Veen)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: CLIPPER 5.0 function NEEDED
Keywords: clipper
Message-ID: <1991May13.122331.6373@ktibv.uucp>
Date: 13 May 91 12:23:31 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: KTI_BV
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Hi there,

I'm looking for a function in CLIPPER 5.0 that checks whether a directory exists
or not (It doesn't matter if there are files in it or not).

I've tried the following lines:

.
.
.
ACCEPT "Directory name : " TO mDirectory
? FILE(TRIM(mDirectory)+"\NUL")
.
.

But this always prints .T. (If I remember correctly, this DID work in the
Summer '87 version)

Can somebody give me a hint on how to solve this, even a RTFM hint.


Thanks,


Richard

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