From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Newsgroups: fa.info-vax
Title: File-Exist ?
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.7954
Posted: Thu Jul  8 11:12:20 1982
Received: Fri Jul  9 02:24:16 1982

>From buck@NRL-CSS Thu Jul  8 11:13:05 1982
The INQUIRE statement will do the job. The statement
 
	INQUIRE(FILE=filename,EXIST=ex)
 
where filename is a character variable or string, and ex is a logical
variable, will set ex true if the file exists and false if not. Note
that INQUIRE is a statement, not a function (like OPEN). See section
9.3 of the VAX-11 FORTRAN manual (April 1980) for more details.