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

[John Cowan]

Mario Domenech Goulart scripsit:

> Isn't (file-exists? ".\\") supposed to return ".\\" on windows?

Ah.  No.  The Win32 kernel does *not* ignore trailing backslashes the
way the Unix kernel ignores trailing slashes -- instead, it returns
file-not-found errors.

Note also that the root directory of a Win32 volume does not contain
"." or ".." files (Cygwin fakes them), so it is not even fully reliable
to ask if "." exists.

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