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From: jstev AT gladstone DOT uoregon DOT edu (Josh Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Findfirst works in beta4
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 00:08:45 GMT
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Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> wrote:

>> v2beta4.  When I call findfirst() and it finds something, it always cuts 
>> off the first two letters of the resulting name.  

>The structure for V2 is packed, so the name is not aligned on a long
>boundary like it was in V1.  If you use a V1.x header and a V2 library you
>would see this problem.  Check your .h files, you have an old one someplace.
>Since the size is different, you may also see other corruption problems.

But I checked the dates on the archived files at DJ's site, and the
ones from the beta4 archive are definitely the same ones that I have.
There is no other copy of dir.h anywhere else on my system.  All the
h files I'm using are straight from the beta4 archives.  Do you have
any other suggestions?  Thanks.

-Josh