Since DOS devices exist in every directory (as first explained to
me in
the book 'Undocumented Dos'), we had a trick for testing for the
presence of a directory in a batch file. The test went like this:
if exist C:\DIRECTORY\MOREDIRS\NUL then .....
Because 'NUL' existed in every directory. Couldn't you just
write a
function that takes the filename under question and check to see if that
file existed in a known directory that should not contain any files
(maybe an empty directory created just for this purpose)?
--
djenkinsat_private Universal Savings Bank.
Security Administrator, Unix Administrator, Alpha Geek
The three most dangerous things are a programmer with a soldering
iron, a manager who codes, and a user who gets ideas.
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