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From:	"Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
Organization:	INTI
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Tue, 1 Dec 1998 14:24:42 +0000
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Subject:	bug in stat?
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Hi all:

  Last night I tried to add a new feature to the editor.
Currently when you write a portion of text to a device the
editor says "File already exists, overwrite?", that's silly
no? Well I want to change it by: "That isn't a file,
probably a device, go ahead?" or something like that.
  So I tried using stat, first from v2.01. It miserably
failed. Then I extracted stat from v2.02 and tried again,
now it passed half of the tests but not all. Example:

/dev/prn -> v2.01 and v2.02: is a device
prn -> v2.02: is a device
/foo/prn -> both says that's a normal file but DOS
understands it as a device.

  The questions are:
  Is just me? (I mixed stat from v2.02 and the rest of 2.01)
  Is that easy to solve? I didn't tried because I know Eli
knows all the guts of stat and I guess he can find the
solution much more quickly and cleanly.

SET



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