$CONSOLE:ONLY OPTION _EXPLICIT CHDIR _STARTDIR$ PRINT "Creating directory temp_dir" MKDIR "temp_dir" PRINT "Changing to directory temp_dir" CHDIR "temp_dir" PRINT "Changing to parent directory" CHDIR ".." PRINT "Renaming temp_dir to dummy_dir" NAME "temp_dir" AS "dummy_dir" PRINT "_DIREXISTS(dummy_dir):"; _DIREXISTS("./dummy_dir") PRINT "Creating a temporary file inside dummy_dir" DIM fileName AS STRING: fileName = CreateDummyFile$("./dummy_dir/") PRINT "_FILEEXISTS(fileName):"; _FILEEXISTS(fileName) PRINT "Deleting fileName" KILL fileName PRINT "Creating 10 dummy files inside dummy_dir" DIM i AS LONG: FOR i = 0 TO 9 fileName = CreateDummyFile$("./dummy_dir/") NEXT i PRINT "Deleting all 10 dummy files" KILL "./dummy_dir/*.tmp" PRINT "Deleting dummy_dir" RMDIR "dummy_dir" SYSTEM FUNCTION CreateDummyFile$ (directory AS STRING) DO DIM fileName AS STRING: fileName = LTRIM$(STR$(100! * (TIMER + RND))) + ".tmp" LOOP WHILE _FILEEXISTS(directory + fileName) fileName = directory + fileName DIM h AS LONG: h = FREEFILE OPEN fileName FOR OUTPUT AS h PRINT #h, "Delete me!" CLOSE h CreateDummyFile = fileName END FUNCTION