ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) (08/27/89)
I have written a fair number of Turbo Pascal programs, but much fewer on standard pascal. I wonder if someone would save me the trouble of finding out some elementary things myself considering Sun 4 pc-compiler pascal. To start with, is there a function for finding out whether a file exists, like using IOResult in Turbo Pascal. If not, any other reasonable way without resorting to systems access (or whatever) or C-programming. This to start with. I shall probably have some more questions later. Email is welcome, but a in my opinion messages here in the news are preferable, because that way knowledge disseminates better. (And that is what this system is all about, if you pardon my meta-comment.) ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: vakk::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) (08/28/89)
In article <724@chyde.uwasa.fi> ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) writes: | I have written a fair number of Turbo Pascal programs, but much | fewer on standard pascal. I wonder if someone would save me the | trouble of finding out some elementary things myself considering Sun | 4 pc-compiler pascal. To start with, is there a function for | finding out whether a file exists, like using IOResult in Turbo | Pascal. If not, any other reasonable way without resorting to | systems access (or whatever) or C-programming. Resorting to sytems access is the most reasonable way to do it, and is not very hard. -- Scott Schwartz <schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu>