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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!data.nas.nasa.gov!taligent!apple!cambridge.apple.com!cfry@MIT.EDU
  2. From: cfry@MIT.EDU (Christopher Fry)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
  4. Subject: directoryp
  5. Message-ID: <9211240117.AA18849@MIT.EDU>
  6. Date: 24 Nov 92 01:18:25 GMT
  7. Sender: info-mcl-request@cambridge.apple.com
  8. Lines: 10
  9. Approved: comp.lang.lisp.mcl@Cambridge.Apple.C0M
  10.  
  11. As far as I can tell, there's no Common Lisp portable way
  12. to tell if a directory exists. [Remember a dir can exist
  13. without having any files in it.]
  14.  
  15. I also can't find a way of creating a directory in CL
  16. without also creating a file in that dir.
  17. I suppose I can create a file in a new dir, then
  18. delete the file, but that's pretty crude.
  19.  
  20. Am I wrong?
  21.