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From: cph@ALTDORF.AI.MIT.EDU (Chris Hanson)
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Subject: Opening files with Cscheme
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Date: 14 Jul 89 14:38:49 GMT
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   Date: 13 Jul 89 18:36:08 GMT
   From: Les Milash <unicads!les@boulder.colorado.edu>

   i have a thing called CScheme, which i love.  i have a manual called
   RRRS.  i have a problem.

   is there a way to figure out if some file exists without crashing?

The procedure `file-exists?' does what you want.  It takes a single
argument which is a filename.