From:	"Joe Hagen" <jdhagen AT chorus DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: What is the canonical way to find out if a file exists (in g++)?
Date:	Wed, 5 Jan 2000 16:25:53 -0600
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Mike,

   Actually, none of these cases will find the file, since it
exceeds the 8.3 DOS filename limit.

   There's a typo in the code that outputs the same expression
for either case for the cout call when you checked using
_file_exists().


Joe
jdhagen AT chorus DOT net

> >On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Mike Demoulin wrote:
> >
>      Directory of C:\FT\FT4WIN
>
>     12/28/99  07:15p                58,134 FTCOMINTEGRATED.OCX.ZIP
>                    1 File(s)         58,134 bytes
>                                 326,311,936 bytes free
>
> Here is the test program:
>             if (__file_exists (file.c_str ()))
>                     cout << "__file_exists () found the file" << endl;
>             else
>                     cout << "__file_exists () found the file" << endl;

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