From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30586 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Create a directory using tex Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:39:22 +0200 Message-ID: <44F540AA.3020509@wxs.nl> References: <44F3E935.8000404@elvenkind.com> <44F53421.4030603@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156923701 30683 80.91.229.2 (30 Aug 2006 07:41:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:41:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Aug 30 09:41:40 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIKhg-0000ZX-At for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:41:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86BD81FE77; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:41:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26605-02; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:41:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8099A1FE6F; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:41:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F9DA1FE6F for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:41:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26676-01 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:41:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 336951FE6B for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:39:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 4013 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:39:23 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <44F53421.4030603@elvenkind.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:30586 Archived-At: Taco Hoekwater wrote: > 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. > if this is part of a project thing, you can use ctx files to add pre/post stuff like checking files, converting files, in this case making directories, etc Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------