[fpc-pascal] FileExists inconsistency

Daniël Mantione daniel.mantione at freepascal.org
Wed Jan 3 17:10:03 CET 2007



Op Wed, 3 Jan 2007, schreef Jonas Maebe:

> > > 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):

Whoops, I overlooked that part of his answer. You're right, I cannot 
either (PC-Dos 2000, no emulation). This is weird, because I have been 
able to do this in the past. But it has then been changed a long time ago 
already.

Daniël


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