Re: Windows DOS box is lying to me

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From: Tim Bierman
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 14:28

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In article <787319035snz@cdsl.demon.co.uk>
           peter@cdsl.demon.co.uk "Peter Hayward" writes:

>    The above method does not work for CD-ROM drives and I suspect certain,
>    but not all, networked drives (as you have found).  Hopefully the
>    solution is
>
>          if exist dirname\*.* goto .......
>
>    which should work for all directories as they contain '.' and '..' even
>    when empty. ...

Don't think so. In DOS 5 at least, "IF EXIST" only looks for files, not
directories. The above line will fail for an empty directory.

--
Tim

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