I wrote an application that I wish to modify in the following way:

If a subdirectory of a certain name does not exist, create it.

I thought: "this is a piece of cake".  I'll use mkdir() and if the 
return value != 0, it already existed prior to the call.

That's it.  Quite easy, eh?

Then I looked at the meager documentation I have and found that mkdir() 
is NON-standard (indeed, its provided as _mkdir()).  Then I looked in 
Snippets and found that this venerable tool uses mkdir().  I looked at 
the methods of the CFile class and found no help there.

BTW, mkdir() is a standard part of Java, FWIW.

Is there a "standard" way of dealing with directory creation?
In thinking about this, it seems to me that directories are not standard 
so how can there be a standard way of dealing with them?

However, since I realize this, you cannot use this excuse.

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