Date:	Sun, 12 Jul 1998 19:06:45 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Gerhard Gruber <sparhawk AT eunet DOT at>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Compile gives Abort! error
In-Reply-To:	<35ab1c76.18464183@news.Austria.EU.net>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980712190633.27114B-100000@is>
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On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Gerhard Gruber wrote:

> >I think I should add a test for TMPDIR to DJVERIFY, except that I still
> >haven't figured out how to test a drive/directory for writeability...
> >any ideas?
> 
> Shouldn't fstat do the job?

You probably mean stat, not fstat.

Anyway, stat cannot be the solution here because DOS itself doesn't
set the read-only attribute for directories on non-writable
filesystems, at least not in all cases.

> I don't know about dos but under unix
> this returns also the information wether you habe write access or
> not. If the function is pretty much the same you can use it.

Unix is *very* different from DOS in this context.

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