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Re: CL program to check if folder exists in IFS

Or just do the MKDIR (which seems to be the goal) and monitor for the "already exists" message.

But, if you do want to check for it first, I posted the solution.

On 4/7/2015 4:58 PM, John Yeung wrote:
There is a much "lower tech" approach, which I suppose is in many ways
also less robust, but is vastly simpler: Just try to CD into the
directory in question and see if it fails. The relevant message to
monitor for is CPFA0A9.

John Y.


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