From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: GNU Pascal (gpc) 2.1 released
Date: 24 May 2002 07:26:20 GMT
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Richard Dawe (rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk) wrote:
: It appears that you won't get an error if you use '@' on a non-existent file.
: E.g.:

:     bash-2.04$ ls -l foo
:     c:/djgpp/bin/ls: foo: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
:     bash-2.04$ rm -fv @foo

I have myself been bitten by this.

Is there any good reason why a non-existent file shouldn't produce a
warning?


Right,

						MartinS