void HistoConverter::CheckDirectory ( const char *  name )

protectedvirtual

check if the given directory can be read/written

if the directory can not be accessed, it set status to zombie and fill the error string with an appropriate message. Useful for systems in which one spectrum is stored per file (see RadConverter::RadConverter(const char *))

It also expands to set environment variables like /Users/stezow, and change the full path to the correct path depending on the operating system.

Reimplemented in GPSIConverter.

Definition at line 372 of file HistoConverter.cpp.