If the purpose is to read the file if it exists, just go ahead and use fread
which will return _1 if the file does not exist. Just test for _1 after the
fread.

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:33 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:

> fexist is a wrapper of 1!:4 (size), which behaves differently on linux and
> windows. On linux it looks at i-node so that it return a non-zero size for
> directoy, whereas on windows, it will raise an error.
>
> The dirutils addons by Ric provides another verb for test directory
> existence which also works for window.
>
> Срд, 29 Дек 2010, Charles Turner писал(а):
> > On Dec 29, 2010, at 7:52 PM, Tikkanz wrote:
> >
> > > fexist jpath '~temp/xyz.txt'
> >
> > Thanks, Ric- I was so stuck on the foreigns that I forgot J had its own
> set of file verbs!
> >
> > Best, C
> >
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