From:	"Ben Davis" <ben AT vjpoole DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Best way to implement DELTREE
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Alexei A. Frounze wrote in message <38E9C679 DOT 30DE0FA4 AT mtu-net DOT ru>...
>You need a recursive traversal through all the directories.
>Here you should use findfirst() and findnext() plus two subroutines that
>save and restore searching state of findfirst() and findnext(). These 2
>additional functions simply saves and restores DTA (refer to HelpPC 2.10
>or TechHelp 6 or Ralf Brown's Int List).

I once did some low-level DTA work (this was pre-DJGPP), so I know a bit
about DTAs. But can someone confirm please, will it work simply to save
sizeof(struct ffblk) bytes?

Ben Davis

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