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Had some bad hours searching for unexpected behaviour
on a remote server.

Finally I could track it down on a 'failing' of FileExists().

There was a '?' in a FileName that was generated by code.
The '?' was interpreted as a wildcard.

Before loading the file in a TRichEdit I checked
it precence by using FileExist.

There came no answer from the server as the folowing
LoadFromFile threw an exeption.

Demo:

void __fastcall TForm1::Button2Click(TObject *Sender)
{
   AnsiString FileName = "Unit1.?";

   if ( FileExists ( FileName ) ) // This will find Unit1.cpp or Unit1.h
      {
      ShowMessage ( FileName + "\n\nFileExists" );

      Memo1->Lines->LoadFromFile ( FileName );   // exeption!
      }
   else
      ShowMessage ( FileName + "\n\nno FileExists" );
}

There is nothing in the help for bcb3 that informs of FileExists using
wildcards.

Now I can write my own file_exists() which does what I want:

#include <stdio.h>
bool file_exists ( char *path )
         {
         FILE *stream = fopen ( path, "rb" );

         if ( ! stream ) return false;

         fclose ( stream );

         return true;
         }

But is there a more native solution ?

Hans.