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Re: Testing for the presence of a file

From "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk>
Subject Re: Testing for the presence of a file
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Date 2018-10-08 14:50 +0100
Message-ID <5743cb2b2bUCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> (permalink)
References <70cfbe4357.graham@graham.durain.uk>
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In article <70cfbe4357.graham@graham.durain.uk>,
   Graham Pickles <graham@durain.uk> wrote:

> If it exists then I wish to remove it but don't want to create an error
> if it doesn't exist!

Alternatively you could OSCLI (or WimpTask) "IfThere "+<path$>+"Wipe
"+<path$> it - that doesn't raise an error if it's not present!

John

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Testing for the presence of a file Graham Pickles <graham@durain.uk> - 2018-10-08 12:35 +0100
  Re: Testing for the presence of a file Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2018-10-08 12:50 +0100
    Re: Testing for the presence of a file Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2018-10-08 13:17 +0100
      Re: Testing for the presence of a file Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2018-10-08 14:24 +0100
      Re: Testing for the presence of a file Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2018-10-08 14:22 +0100
  Re: Testing for the presence of a file "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2018-10-08 14:42 +0100
    Re: Testing for the presence of a file Graham Pickles <graham@durain.uk> - 2018-10-09 09:33 +0100
      Re: Testing for the presence of a file "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2018-10-09 23:59 +0100
  Re: Testing for the presence of a file "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2018-10-08 14:50 +0100
    Re: Testing for the presence of a file "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2018-10-08 14:53 +0100
    Re: Testing for the presence of a file jgh@mdfs.net - 2018-10-21 19:57 -0700
      Re: Testing for the presence of a file jgh@mdfs.net - 2018-10-21 20:00 -0700
  Re: Testing for the presence of a file jgh@mdfs.net - 2018-10-21 19:55 -0700
    Re: Testing for the presence of a file Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2018-10-23 07:43 +0100

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