Re: [Chicken-users] file-exists? on Windows

[Kon Lovett]

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On May 14, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Alex Queiroz wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> On 5/14/07, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> > IMHO it is not worth working so hard to get this corner case correct;
> > you will end up reimplementing half of Cygwin.
>
>     This is needed for Spiffy to work on Windows.

Maybe require Cygwin for Spiffy?

> > Are you sure?  "." and ".." really do exist in directories that  
> > aren't
> > volume roots.  Try accessing "C:\\.".
>
> #;1> (file-exists? "c:\\.")
> "c:\\."

Works for me as well. (I am ASSuming that since I do not see much in  
the way of extra dlls for MinGW that Win32 native calls are used.)

> Cheers,
> --
> -alex

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