> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 20:36:22 -0400 > From: <dsm...@roadrunner.com> > Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org > > > It still works on modern Windows systems as well. > > This was an old msdos batch file trick. There was no way to directly tell if > a directory existed, > But if c:\some\dir\nul "existed" then c:\some\dir did.
Now, that trick no longer works on Windows.