From:	Laurence Withers <lwithers AT lwithers DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: findfirst and directories containing only subdirectories
Date:	Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:53:32 +0100
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In article <200006231014 DOT NAA28348 AT alpha DOT netvision DOT net DOT il>, Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes

>So either you posted a program that is different from what you
>actually run, or there's some factor specific to your system that is
>at work here.

The program was copied via cut-and-paste, so that is not the problem.
Obviously there is something wrong with my Win98 setup, and it's
something I'm not too worried about (I primarily work under a DOS box,
except for Internet stuff).

>Note that there's nothing wrong with errno being non-zero, since you
>didn't initialize it to zero before calling `findfirst'.  But the
>status returned by `findfirst' should indeed be zero in the case you
>described.

Sorry - I'm too used to error handling via exceptions to know how to use
errno in any detail.

Thanks very much for your help, and bye for now,
-- 
Laurence Withers, lwithers AT lwithers DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
                http://www.lwithers.demon.co.uk/

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