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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: How to be sure of if a file exist?
Date: 1996/07/09
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The rules for what constitutes a valid file name will vary between
various operating systems.  In most cases file names which lack an
embedded device and/or directory specification will go to some "current"
area, but sometimes that area will not exist or will not be writable
by the user.

One cannot write a program which uses files without some knowledge of
the operating system environment(s).

Larry Kilgallen