Thank you for your answer.
I don't see why this would happen, as I'm working on local files with
an administrator account (NT).
> Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> I don't know much about how the NT filesystem, but I _suspect_ this is what's
>happening:
> To determine if a file exists, REBOL tries to get a filesystem lock on the file or
>directory (this is happening on Amiga at least, verified with snoopdos). The result
>of this action
> (success/failure) determines the result of exists?
> AFAIR directory locks are mostly used to read the contents of a directory, so it
>might be that the user under which the rebol/cgi script is running does not have the
>required priviledges to do a
> directory-listing.
> Try doing a (print what-dir) and a (list-dir) in the "other" script (ie. not the cgi
>one).
> Best regards
> Thomas Jensen
> On 13-Jun-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Just a guess, but does the same happen if you add a trailing slash, ie:
>>> print exists? %./
>>
>> Yes it does.
>> I guess it has to do with file permissions.
>> I'm running NT, the script does some stuff on files but it's local.
>> The rebol script invoked with the do/args is outside of the cgi-bin
>> directory defined in Apache. Is this a problem ? (it runs fine, it
>> just seems oblivious to what local files pertains).
>>
>> daniel
>>
>>> On 13-Jun-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> Can someone help me with the following :
>>>>
>>>> Consider this : print exists %.
>>>>
>>>> In other words, does the current directory exists ? (which has to be always
>>>> true).
>>>>
>>>> However, when this line is called from a CGI script (it's not part of
>>>> the CGI script itself, but part of a rebol script called with "do/args" from
>>>> the CGI script), it produces "false".
>>>>
>>>> I'm running Apache.
>>>>
>>>> daniel
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