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Re: Examples of Safe File Handling

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• Subject: [mg36965] Re: Examples of Safe File Handling
• From: "Stephen Luttrell" <luttrell at _removemefirst_westmal.demon.co.uk>
• Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 00:17:12 -0400 (EDT)
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FileNames[] does what you want.

Steve Luttrell

"Steven" <hattons at speakeasy.net> wrote in message
news:ane996$kg0$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> I've been looking over the file and directory manipulation functions in
Mathematica
> 4.1, and I'm not finding good examples of how to test for the existence of
> a file or directory before I attempt to create, access, or delete it.  Are
> there any good examples of this somewhere?
>
> STH
>