Hello Neil!

Replying to a message of Neil Heller to All:

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

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

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

 NH> That's it.  Quite easy, eh?

 NH> Then I looked at the meager documentation I have and found that
 NH> mkdir()  is NON-standard (indeed, its provided as _mkdir()).  Then I

True but false.  mkdir() is indeed not part of the ANSI standard libraries.
 However, it *is* part of the POSIX standard.  If your compiler is
POSIX-standard, then it has mkdir().

 NH> looked in  Snippets and found that this venerable tool uses mkdir(). 
 NH> I looked at  the methods of the CFile class and found no help there.

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

 NH> Is there a "standard" way of dealing with directory creation?

Yes - in the POSIX standard :-)

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

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

Darin
C_PLUSPLUS moderator
dmcbride{at}tower.to.org

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