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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 20:11:16 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <199804050111.UAA07328@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: Myknees AT aol DOT com
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <702a8615.3526ad8f@aol.com> (message from Myknees on Sat, 4 Apr
1998 17:00:45 EST)
Subject: Re: findfirst attrib parameter -- I must be missing something

> That implies that the regular files meet the qualification for exclusion.  The
> regular files have flag bits (0x20).  So the regular files do have a flag bit

No, regular files that haven't been backed up (archived - FA_ARCH) are
excluded.  Writable regular files that HAVE been backed up have an
attribute byte of zero, and thus always meet the selection criteria
for findfirst().

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