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From: louis@aerospace.aero.org (Louis M. McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Checking for the existence of a file
Message-ID: <53975@aerospace.AERO.ORG>
Date: 5 Jul 89 18:47:27 GMT
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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Does anyone know a good way to check to see if a file exists,
and then based on the result, create a new file, or open the
old one?

My primary application is to tie documents to applications
(e.g. Word). The idea is to allow me to open a document,
and if it does not exist, a empty document will be created
and the application will use that.

Louis McDonald