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From: tonym@polari.UUCP (Tony Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Does file exist in THINK C...
Message-ID: <4167@polari.UUCP>
Date: 21 May 91 16:38:55 GMT
References: <1991May20.190829.3885@cs.yale.edu>
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In article <1991May20.190829.3885@cs.yale.edu> tarr-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (Michael J. Tarr) writes:
>
>In THINK C (4.0.5) I wish to be able to find out if a file already
>exists. In DOS the easy thing to do is access(filename, 0), but I don't
>know of a comparable unix or Mac function. Any clues?

One way is to call FInfo and see if you get an fnfErr (file not found).