Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 19:06:11 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Compile gives Abort! error
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On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, John M. Aldrich 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?

The only way to be sure is to create a file and see if that succeeds,
then delete it.  Nothing else will work, since DOS/Windows cannot be
bothered to return correct directory attributes on read-only
filesystems.  For that matter, I think DOS itself doesn't even know
that a filesystem is read-only until it tries to write there.  For
example, consider a write-protected floppy.