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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=100482104-25062008>Was
this Windows or linux? There is a sort of well known DOS/Windows
problem where the copy command does NOT neccessarily copy empty files.
Files that have been created but never written to (ie zero bytes) are in the
grey world between existing and not existing as far as Copy commands, and some
standard file calls...FileExists however does work...</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=100482104-25062008>A
similar grey area exists with empty directories.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoAutoSig align=left>John Bird</P>
<P class=MsoAutoSig><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #000000"> we got a little foxed as their system did not
recover empty files, or at least their system did not copy them off - presumably
they assumed that empty files were of little significance. Try telling that to a
database like Mysql (very popular for the web guys) !! Once we figured that out
the rest was easy.</SPAN></SPAN> </P></DIV>
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