Unlikely to work in Netscape. You can use the java packages for this but you 
will get a security warning similar to the one you would receive if trying 
to use unsafe ActiveX.

Joe


>From: "Awdhil" <Awdhil@g...>
>Reply-To: "javascript" <javascript@p...>
>To: "javascript" <javascript@p...>
>Subject: [javascript] RE: File Operations
>Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 17:44:42 +0300
>
>Hi:
>    use the filesytemobject along with fileexists(ur path).
>
>Syed Awdhil Ahmed
>September 12, 2002
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Laxmeesha [mailto:laxmeesha@d...]
>Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 5:11 PM
>To: javascript
>Subject: [javascript] File Operations
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>My problem is how to find whether the file exists on the client system
>or not?
>The path of the file is entered by the user. On clicking upload button ,
>before uploading we need to verify whether file exists or not.
>
>Browser - Netscape
>Scripting Langauge - Javascript
>
>Please anyone bail me out of this problem.
>
>Bye and thanks in advance
>Mangesh
>
>
>
>
>
>
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