Re: Windows DOS box is lying to me

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From: Peter Hayward
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 17:10

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In article <787328884snz@bierman.demon.co.uk>
           tim@bierman.demon.co.uk "Tim Bierman" writes:

| 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
|
   Yup!.  You're correct.  It doesn't detect empty directories.   That's
   what happens when you believe things you read in magazines.

--
Peter Hayward, Cambridge, UK                 | Life is symetrical about 42
peter@cdsl.demon.co.uk, tel +44-1223-312-923 | and I'm on the downside.

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