Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!umd5!brl-adm!adm!mchinni@ARDEC.arpa From: mchinni@ARDEC.arpa (System Administrator for ARDEC-CC1) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: HELP! File status checking in C Message-ID: <10869@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: 15 Dec 87 22:42:01 GMT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 9 HELP! I am in the process of converting a bourne-shell script into C. To do this I need to know how to do the following in C: 1) Check whether a directory exists 2) Given two files: filea and fileb Check if filea has been modified more recently than fileb Mike Chinni