'Twould be nice, but I don't think so. You have to do something with the 
function's return value. I think George's suggestion was an appropriate 
way to handle that value. It's pretty much right out of the reference 
manual. But isn't what you're using FILES$ rather than FILE$?

Joe

Richard Goodman wrote:

>Thanks to G. Beckman, Joe Wilkins and Bernie Wylde for your responses to my
>question. I will have to study them in reference to my code to see if I can
>understand the problem and a solution.
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>Joe wrote:
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><<<I'm pretty sure that you'll find that cancelling the dialog does not
>exit the routine, but continues on without a file name. Cancelling must
>exit the routine or you're going to have that kind of response to it.>>>
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>I thought the runtime was supposed to handle all the processing of a FILE$
>dialogue box.
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>
>Richard
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