Re: Windows DOS box is lying to me

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From: John Beardmore
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 1994 13:26

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In article <787141964snz@azmi.demon.co.uk>
           azmi@azmi.demon.co.uk "Azmi Tenikalp" writes:

>To test for the existence of a directory from a DOS batch batch file, 
>I use the time honoured method of testing for the existence of NUL 
>in that directory, eg :
>
>     if exist dir_name\nul goto blah_blah_blah

Have you tried these variants:

    if exist dir_name goto blah_blah_blah

and

    if exist dir_name\*.* goto blah_blah_blah


They may not be exactly what you need but they might shed some light on the
problem I guess.

-- 
John Beardmore     wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk
                   wookie@cix.compulink.co.uk

Remember children:  'M' is for Monoculture and for Microsoft.

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