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From: hh@tut.fi (Halme Heikki)
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Subject: How to find out if a file exists
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Date: 3 Jun 89 10:26:44 GMT
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In-reply-to: prove@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu's message of 2 Jun 89 19:00:10 GMT

In article <8087@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> prove@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Ove) writes:

   It should be possible ...
   ... to check on the file's existence, and on failure download
   the rest of the ps.  I tried to implement this and failed,
   seemingly due to a NeWS bug.  Putting the file load in a
       {...open file ...} stopped
   clause ought to do the trick, but it bombs out anyway when it
   can't find the file.  I guess I'm not the only one that has
   run into this problem, since the routine /fileexists in the
   default init.ps is commented out.  Has anyone found a way to
   make this work?

The routine /fileexists in init.ps does work, just try it! So, what
else is there that is commented out and works just fine?

Heikki Halme
Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland
hh@tut.fi