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From: jmw@tasis.eecs.utas.edu.au (John Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Fattrib and detecting directories
Keywords: Fattrib, directory, Dcreate
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Date: 19 Sep 90 12:42:07 GMT
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Is Fattrib able to report on directories? According to my MWC doco a 
subdirectory is indicated by the bit pattern 0x10 encoded in the return value,
but whenever I give it a directory Fattrib fails with a return value of -36 (file not found).

I want to be able to detect the presence of a directory so I can create it
if it is not there. So far the only way I have been able to get this to work is
by calling Dcreate. If the directory doesn't exist I get a return value of 
zero for succesul creation; if it does already exist I get a return value of -36
(again).  Is this the _only_ way to get that error?

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanx all,
John M Williams				jmw@tasis.eecs.utas.edu.au