From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
Subject: Re: Create a directory using tex
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:45:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F53421.4030603@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.63.0608292103460.2052@nqvgln>
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> Can I ask TeX to check if a directory exists or is writable.
I do not think so.
And on second thought: not even \write18 will work always, because
whether or not TeX can write a file (in a subdir or even in the
local directory) depends in part on settings in texmf.cnf that
are not visible outside TeX.
Cheers, Taco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-30 6:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-29 5:30 Aditya Mahajan
2006-08-29 7:13 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-08-30 1:09 ` Aditya Mahajan
2006-08-30 6:45 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2006-08-30 7:39 ` Hans Hagen
2006-08-30 7:30 ` Hans Hagen
2006-08-30 13:23 ` Aditya Mahajan
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