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From: "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.FrankLho@rcn.com>
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Subject: Re: if file exist
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"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message
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> Dale Stanbrough <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au> writes:
>
> > Ask the operating system? Another way is to attempt to open
> > the file. If it opens successfully then it exists.
>
> and is readable (assuning you tried to open it for read!). It might
> exist and not be readable, in which case this test would fail.

Absolutely true. There is a proposal for a directory I/O package for
inclusion in Ada 0x, and that would be the ideal solution.