Re: Check existence of a directory?

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hey, Scott, as you told me once, access() is not intended for CL (until
> V5R3). It DOES work for existence - at least it always has for me - but is
> probably not to be trusted.

Absolutely right.  Don't use access() in a CL program.  Write an RPG or C
program as a CPP and create a command, call the command from CL.  As I
said, this has been discussed many times before -- search the archives for
a real example, and pointers to many programs that do this.

Or -- if you absolutely MUST use pure CL, use the stat() API.  Or QShell.

> I don't hear you saying CL, but that was the context of the original post.
> So that makes CHKOUT/CHKIN the easiest from a pure CL standpoint.

I was just giving my opinion.  My opinion is that you should do this the
best way, not the easiest way.  If you write a program once and put a
command wrapper around it, you'll always have it and you won't have to use
odd workarounds that are hard for the next guy to understand.

I'm weird that way...