Sure! If you want to find out whether a file EXISTS, simply do an INQUIRE with an EXISTS specifier. One additional "advantage" is that you don't have to OPEN the file in case it does exist. I'm surprised nobody mentioned INQUIRE until now. = Loren P Meissner -----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Alvaro Agustin Fernandez Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 11:21 AM Cc: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Opening a non-existing file is not an error? [...] If you need to know more about the file, though, do use inquire(). :-) Alvaro %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%