>What's the cleanest way of simply checking whether the specified file, and/or
>file of specified type, exists in the given location? I don't need to open it
>or do anything with it, just look to see whether it's there.

This one I do know; I got it from the Staz site the other day:

'---------------------------------------
'FileExists
'---------------------------------------
CLEAR LOCAL MODE
DIM pBlk.ioHFQElSiz
LOCAL FN FileExists(fileName$,vRefNum%)
  'set up param block
  pBlk.ioVRefNum%  = vRefNum%
  pBlk.ioNamePtr& = @fileName$
  'get file info
END FN = FN HGETFILEINFO(@pBlk) = _noErr
'=========================================

'This is how you would call the function:

WINDOW 1
myVRefNum = SYSTEM(_aplVol)
filename$ = "MyFile"
LONG IF FileExists(filename$,myVRefNum)
  PRINT "The file exists."
XELSE
  PRINT "The file does not exist."
END IF



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