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Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> writes:

> Why file-exists-p?  Can a file be executable but not exist?
> 
> Also, don't search the path for absolute file names.

I've installed your version of the function now.

> However, neither version works on operating systems that append a file
> type to command file names (.COM, .BAT, .EXE, whatever).  You can do it
> in C, though.  Maybe you can get RMS to make lread.c:openp() available
> to emacs-lisp commands.  Something like this (untested, a slight fix to
> something I wrote a long time ago):

Well, I didn't write it, so perhaps you could send it to RMS?  (Or, if 
the paperwork on the code is OK, I could forward it to him...)

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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