Date:	Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:19:40 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Mike Demoulin <mad AT intersurf DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: What is the canonical way to find out if a file exists (in g++)?
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On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Mike Demoulin wrote:

> In g++, I have used stat (), __file_exists (), and ifstream ().good ().
> All of these can return false negatives under NT. What am I doing wrong?

I have never heard about `stat' and `__file_exists' returning false
negatives, in any environment.  Please post the details (a short
program and the directory listing by DIR would be nice).

What version of DJGPP are you using, btw?

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