From: mad AT intersurf DOT com (Mike Demoulin)
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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 Wed, 5 Jan 2000 16:25:53 -0600, Joe Hagen <jdhagen AT chorus DOT net> wrote:
>Mike,
>
>   Actually, none of these cases will find the file, since it
>exceeds the 8.3 DOS filename limit.

Is there any way that I can find files with long file names? 
I tried findfirst (), which is supposed to work with long file names,
with no joy.

>   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().

Thanks, that might explain why __file_exists () was reported as finding
the file.