> It seems to me that te question is "Shall a device > exist in a non-existing directory ?"
I don't think that's the correct question. I think there are two questions. The first question is, "Does a device exist in a non-existent directory?" The answer to that is no -- a device does not exist in an "imaginary" place that you cannot actually navigate to. In that sense, it has the same characteristics as a "normal" file. The second questions is, "Does a device exist in all existing directories, or only certain ones?" The answer to that question is that it is supposed to "exist" in ALL directories. If you can navigate to a directory, ALL devices "exist" there (at least for the purposes of an "IF EXIST" test). For example, if you navigate to an existing directory on a floppy drive that's already full and has no room left for any "real" files, or a read-only device like a CD-ROM, the NUL device (and all other character devices) still "exist" there. In addition, you can write to a character device (like NUL) even if the directory itself is read-only. In that sense, it is different than a "normal" file. That's why you can use the IF EXIST test (with a character device name in place of the file name) to test for the existence of a directory instead of a file, and it should work for any directory that is navigable. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
