From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Checking to see if I file exists
Date: 22 Oct 1997 17:02:42 GMT
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"H. Anthony Hoyt" (hahoyt AT eng2 DOT uconn DOT edu) writes:
>      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

This is a C question, not a DJGPP question. There is an 'exists' function
in stdio.h.

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