Verify Path API

[jforgey]

Hello All,

Is there an API call that verifies a drive + path?

Thanks
Jason


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[Bern Ertl]

I don't know about an API call, but the following works fine:

FUNCTION PathOK&( BYVAL Path$)

IF LEN(DIR$( Path$, 16)) THEN
FUNCTION = -1
ELSE
FUNCTION = 0
END IF

END FUNCTION

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[Semen Matusovski]

GetFileAttributes (Ex) = GetAttr
FindFirstFile (Ex) = Dir$



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[jforgey]

Thanks for your posts I'll take a look.

Jason

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[Joseph W Murphy]

This API call will verify the path AND create the entire path if it does not exist.

Declare Function MakeSureDir LIB "IMAGEHLP.DLL" Alias _
        "MakeSureDirectoryPathExists" (lpDirName As Asciiz) As Long

Function PbMain() As Long
    Dim RetVal As Long
    Dim DirPath As Asciiz*256
    ' The trailing \ is necessary
    ' if the directory path does not exist, it will be created
    DirPath = "C:\murphy\test\temp\junk.jnk"
    RetVal = MakeSureDir(DirPath)
end function

Joe Murphy

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[This message has been edited by Joseph W Murphy (edited January 23, 2001).]

[jforgey]

Does that dll ship with 95/98/ME/2000?

Jason

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[Joseph W Murphy]

As far as I know the earliest version that had the DLL was Win 95B
I believe that it is part of Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Every PC that our company (over 200) has this DLL installed, but then as part of Y2K remediation every PC (even those with Win95a) has MSIE 4.02 or greater installed.

Joe

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