From: adalee AT sendit DOT sendit DOT nodak DOT edu (Adam W Lee)
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Subject: Re: file_exists()
Date: 23 Aug 1997 10:02:36 GMT
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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org) wrote:

: Perusing the DJGPP libc sources, it seems to me that access(filename,
: R_OK) will give you the results that you want, without the overhead of
: an fopen and an fclose.  Just call:

: access("filename.ext", R_OK)

: Zero return value means the file is available for reading, which
: implies that it actually exists.  So this code should work:

: if (access("filename.ext", R_OK)) {
: 	fprint("FILE %s does not exist\n", "filename.ext");
: 	exit(1);
: }
: /* From here on we know the file exists... */

Like was already pointed out, this doesn't work over networks sometimes,
etc...  Also, if the read permission were turned off it would deny you.
I would take a look at findfirst();

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