Smile2Me
7th May 2002 06:56 UTC

Bug in IfFileExists?
I'm creating hyperlinks with NSIS to dirs if the dir exists. Testing the code I found this:

IfFileExists "C:\*.*" returned "EXISTS" in Win2K and "DOES NOT EXIST" in Win98 (and it actually exists :)).

For other dirs (eg: "C:\Program Files\*.*") everything seems to work fine.

I guess this is a bug :(

Greetz,
-Hendri.

kichik
7th May 2002 16:26 UTC

If you want to find any file why not use FindFirst?

Smile2Me
8th May 2002 08:25 UTC

KiCHiK,

I only want to know if the directory exists. If it does not exist, then the utility will not create a hyperlink to that dir. Otherwise it will. So I need to use IfFileExists.

Thx for your response though :)

Greetz,
-Hendri.

kichik
8th May 2002 09:05 UTC

Well, IfFileExists uses FindFirstFile anyway... :)
I have also tried some combinations my self on Win98, nothing seems to work... Must be yet another Microsoft unreferenced feature :D ...

Smile2Me
8th May 2002 09:17 UTC

Hmmm...

doesn't sound hopefull :(.
Is there a way to overcome this problem with current NSIS?

-Hendri.

kichik
8th May 2002 10:44 UTC

Try searching MSDN, maybe you will find something useful over there...

kichik
8th May 2002 11:50 UTC

GetFullPathName $1 "Q:\*.*"
Seems to work prefectly fine on both XP and Win98. It returns an empty string if not found.

Smile2Me
8th May 2002 12:51 UTC

Of course, I didn't think of this because I was fixed on IfFileExists too much...

Thx,
-Hendri.