Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 17:43:05 -0700 (PDT)
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To: "H. Anthony Hoyt" <hahoyt AT eng2 DOT uconn DOT edu>,
        DJGPP Mailing List <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Checking to see if I file exists
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At 02:18  10/20/1997 -0400, H. Anthony Hoyt wrote:
>     I can't seem to remember how to check to see if I file exists or not.
>What I want is, if the user enters in a file name, to check to see if the
>file exists.  If so, I want to open the file, not overwrite it, read from
>the file then recreate the file before I finaly save the file.  (All in
>binary)  Any advice would be welcome.  Thanks
Try the very confusingly :) named function __file_exists(). If you want to
be portable, use access() or stat().

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net