# [ref_impl_eiffel] [504] AWB-38: If the user tried to open a file that does not exist, then a node was added to the repository tree, with a parse error due to the file contents being empty.

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**Created:** 2008-02-10 14:20 UTC
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## Post #1 by @svn1

Revision: 504
Author:   peter\.gummer

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