On Wednesday 04 December 2002 08:34 am, Ned Konz wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 December 2002 07:47 am, Stephen Pair wrote:
> > Recently, I've encountered a serious bug on Windows.  I've just
> > starting running squeak out of c:\squeak, and I found that trying
> > to install SqueakMap packages would occasionally cause things to
> > go into an infinite recursion.  Upon further inspection, I
> > discovered that it was happening on
> > FileDirectory>>assureExistence...to recreate, you can do the
> > following:
> >
> >         (FileDirectory on: 'c:\squeak') assureExistence
>
> Oddly enough, on my Win2K system, the following answer true before
> applying your fix:
>
> (FileDirectory on: 'c:\ned') exists
> (FileDirectory on: 'c:\') exists
>
> Though I get infinite recursion on
> (FileDirectory on: 'c:\ned') assureExistence

That was on a 3.4a-5109 system.

Updating to the current version of 3.4b causes these to return false:
(FileDirectory on: 'c:\') exists
(FileDirectory on: 'c:') exists

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