Organization:	Technical University of Kielce
Address:	Al. Tysiaclecia P.P. 7, 25-314 Kielce, POLAND
Message-ID:	<3278F567.1D80@sabat.tu.kielce.pl>
Date:	Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:52:23 -0500
From:	Grzegorz Kolodziej <kolodzie AT sabat DOT tu DOT kielce DOT pl>
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Problem with findfirst & findnext

I needed some code to erase work files of my application, the solution
was obvious - only at first sigth :-)

       ....
int res;
struct ffblk FB;
       ....
res=findfirst("*.bin",&FB,FA_ARCH);
while(!res){ unlink(FB.ff_name);
	     res=findnext(&FB); 
	    }
       ....

but it doesn't work ...

The problem is (as it can be seen using gdb):
While findfirst() finds file (res==0) the ffblk structure contains
strange values i.e. field ff_name contains file name without first 
2 letters,ff_fsize is any huge number (other fields aren't correct 
also), so found file  couldn't be deleted by unlink().

I used DJGPP ver. 2.0 on MSDOS 6.20. The same piece of code works
fine if compiled with TC.

What's wrong? Who has any idea? Maybe this problem isn't new - if
so - forgive me.

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