[fpc-pascal] FileExists inconsistency

[Jonas Maebe]

On 3 jan 2007, at 16:46, Dani=EBl Mantione wrote:

> Op Wed, 3 Jan 2007, schreef Henry Vermaak:
>
>>> There is no getting away that Dos filesystem handling is different
>>> from Unix file handling. On Dos like platforms, a filename with
>>> a same name as a subdirectory can exist in the same directory. In  =

>>> other
>>> words, it should return false.
>>>
>>
>> I cannot create a file with the same name as a subdir under  =

>> Windows XP
>> on ntfs or fat32...

[snip]

>> Maybe there's something I'm missing?
>
> No, because in a Dos like filesystem, a direcory abcd will still  =

> allow a
> file abcd to be created. In other words, fileexists returns false  =

> so the
> file can be created.

As he mentioned above, that does not work for him. It also does not  =

work for me in MS Dos 6.22 and fat16 (running in an emulator, but I  =

doubt that changes anything for this sort of stuff):

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Jonas