"Shruti" wrote
> i want to check if the directory exists. If it does not then I
> want to exit.
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you don't mention anything about versions, this quick test
script was tested on 2.1.3 of k95, connecting to some 8.0
unix build. If fail works just fine.

my script:
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rdir /home
if fail stop 1 no home
rcd /home

rdir /home/xxx
if fail stop 2 no xxx
rcd /home/xxx
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My Results::: ( note the no xxx line at the bottom as the if fail returns
true.)
[C:\Documents and Settings\boz\] K-95> take c:/bat/rpwd.ksc
Press the X or E key to cancel.
drwx------ 4096 2004-08-31 09:07:19 /home/apeasy_wpa
drwx------ 4096 2004-01-19 09:41:26 /home/boz
drw------- 4096 2004-08-04 08:01:33 /home/data
-rw------- 12 2004-08-14 11:42:13 /home/diskspace
drwx------ 4096 2004-08-31 08:11:17 /home/nemclab
drwx------ 4096 2004-04-23 08:58:55 /home/newark
drwx------ 4096 2004-08-31 09:08:15 /home/nh_wpa
drwx------ 4096 2003-03-31 12:34:53 /home/nhmrc
drwx------ 4096 2004-08-31 09:09:34 /home/stp
drwx------ 4096 2004-08-14 11:41:51 /home/test
/home
Press the X or E key to cancel.

?No files match
no xxx
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On 2004-08-31, Shruti wrote:
: I am getting files from a unix server to my machine running win2k
: using modem dial out. My script is working fine except one small
: thing. When I change the directory to where the files are supposed to
: be, i want to check if the directory exists. If it does not then I
: want to exit.
:
: 1. The "If Directory" command checks for the existence of the
: directory on the local machine not on the remote server. So that
: did not work.
:
Correct, IF DIRECTORY applies to the local file system. Thus one would
not expect it to work for remote files.

: 2. I also tried "remote query" method to get the pwd, but it shows as
: being unimplemented.
:
The QUERY feature is implemented in C-Kermit 6.0 and later. See below.

: 3. "If fail" command also did not help.
:
It depends how you use it.

: I tried a few more things but nothing seems to be working. Below is
: part of my script. After I do cd I want to check.
:
If you have the name of an existing remote file and you try to CD to it,
this will fail if the file is not a directory, or if you lack permission
to CD to it, or it does not exist. Thus success is conclusive, but
failure is not.

Here is how you could use the QUERY feature to do what you want. Suppose
"somefile" is the name of a file in the server's current directory. Then:

remote query kermit directories(somefile)

This will set the local variable \v(query) to 1 if "somefile" is a directory
or to 0 if it is not a directory.

remote query kermit directories(somefile)
if \v(query) {
(This section is executed if somefile is a directory)
} else {
(This section is executed if somefile is NOT a directory)
}

However, in testing this, I find that Kermit's built-in \fdirectories()
function has a problem when given the name of a single directory (as opposed
to a wildcard). This suggests the following workaround:

remote query kermit directories(somefil[e])

in which "somefile[e]" is a wildcard that matches only "somefile". I'll
fix this bug next time around.

- Frank