From: t.ment@protocol.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 19:37:20 +0300, Anton Shepelev wrote:   
      
   >> I'm not sure what you want.   
      
   > In  other  words,  I want to intercept the situation   
   > when in the command   
      
   >   type a > C:\NOSUCHNDIR\test.txt   
      
   > fails because the directory C:\NOSUCHNDIR  does  not   
   > exist.   
      
   Reorganinze the code to do the \NUL test first. Then you know in advance   
   whether or not what follows will succeed.   
      
   I don't know any other way.   
      
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