Do you have a FILE that's called BACKUP? That's why I don't like
using CHKFILE to check for existence of a directory. I got burned once
at a client where they had a file called TEMP when I was just looking
for a directory named Temp!
Karen
> I know I have done this before but I'm missing something.
>
> I'm trying to check the existance of a folder in the current directory
> named BACKUP
> and create it if not found so I have
> SET VAR vChkDir = (CHKFILE("BACKUP"))
> IF vChkDir <>1 THEN
> MD BACKUP
> ENDIF
>
> Currently the directory does not have a BACKUP directory. When I trace this
> vChkDir comes
> up with 1 even though it should be 0.
>
> If I change the code to
> SET VAR vChkDir = (CHKFILE("C:\RBTI\RBG76\MyFiles\BACKUP"))
> then vChkDir returns 0
>
> I've tried
> SET VAR vChkDir = (CHKFILE("\BACKUP"))
> and
> SET VAR vChkDir = (CHKFILE("/BACKUP"))
> with no change.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Using 7.6.4.30610
>
>
