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In article <787224072snz@azmi.demon.co.uk>, Azmi Tenikalp wrote:
:>      The DOS batchfile test for the existence of a directory, 

:>           if exist dir_name\nul goto blah_blah_blah

:>      fails to work properly ONLY on one machine, and ONLY when run
:>      in a DOS session within Windows - it reports the existence of 
:>      the directory, whether this is true or not.

:> The method is legitimate; I and many others have used it for years; 
:> I have referred to the Garbo FAQs, and the method is used there 
:> identically.  

I don't know if anyone here uses GTeX, but the MakeTeXP.bat batch file
distributed with that version of dvips has a comment to the effect that
there is a bug in WfWg 3.11 -- \<path>\null exists even if <path> does
not exist.  Does this help?

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Malcolm Murphy                         email: Malcolm.Murphy@bristol.ac.uk

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