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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Assign
Message-ID: <1799@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 14:30:41 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 14 14:30:41 1987
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Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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Hi gang,

Does anyone out there have any idea how to find out (from 'C')
if something in particular is in the 'Assign' table?  I want to
find out if a file exists using an Assign foo: wherever, and by
referencing the file as foo:filename.  If either the file does
not exist, or the foo: has never been assigned, is what I want
to find out from my program.  Unfortunately, if foo: has not
been assigned, what I get is a requester that says 'insert
foo: in any drive' which is not what I want.  If it is not
in the Assign table, I want to assume that it does not
exist.

Any ideas?  I'd prefer not to do an   Execute("Assign >ram:tmp",0,0);
followed by an investigation of ram:tmp.  Yuk!

Keith Doyle
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