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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: if file exist
Date: 23 Sep 2002 06:14:38 +0100
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Dale Stanbrough <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au> writes:

> Simon Wright wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> No, my test will succeed in that -if- it exists, and -if- it 
> opens successfully, then it does exist.
> I said nothing about other conditions.

No, but you introduced the feature that the file must be readable;
which was not in the original poster's requirements.