There is no getting away that Dos filesystem handling is different
from Unix file handling. On Dos like platforms, a filename with
a same name as a subdirectory can exist in the same directory. In other
words, it should return false.
I cannot create a file with the same name as a subdir under Windows XP
on ntfs or fat32...
On the other hand, in Unix, it should return true because otherwise code
like:
if not fileexists('abcd') then
begin
assign(f,'abcd');
rewrite(f);
end;
... becomes unreliable.
...so that means that this code will also be unreliable on windows.
In short: the 2 file systems are consistent with their behaviour in
this respect, but the FileExists is not.
Maybe there's something I'm missing?
Henry
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