Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!joe From: joe@cbmvax.commodore.com (Joe O'Hara - Product Assurance) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: ss help Message-ID: <13834@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 16 Aug 90 13:46:31 GMT References: <3954@crash.cts.com> Reply-To: joe@cbmvax (Joe O'Hara - Product Assurance) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 29 In article <3954@crash.cts.com> pierre@pro-graphics.cts.com (Pierre Altamore) writes: >I need a little help with a few lines i'm trying to implement in my startup >sequence. I need to check if RAD: exists, but the way i'm doing it is >producing an undesirable system requester asking me to put RAD: in any drive. >i'd like this line to be executed is if RAD: doesn't already exist, so I tried > >this: > >if not exists RAD: The way to this is as follows: ASSIGN RAD: EXISTS IF WARN (then it doesn't exists) ELSE (it does exists) This assumes Workbench 1.3 -- ========================================================================== Joe O'Hara || Disclaimer: I didn't say that! Commodore Electronics Ltd || Product Assurance || "I never lie when I have sand in my shoes." Systems Evaluation Group || - Geordi LeForge, Star Trek TNG ==========================================================================