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From: Nick Plant <njp AT tesa DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Something funny in startup code?
Date: Wed, 22 May 96 16:50:29  GMT
Organization: TESA Metrology Ltd
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Message-ID: <832809029snx@tesa.demon.co.uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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I've discovered a peculiarity (maybe a bug) with the recursive directory
searching in the V2 startup code. I'm using grep and relying on the startup
code to recursively expand all file names.

When I type:

  grep SomeText \proj\p309\...\file1

I get the the following error:

  grep: \proj\p309\startup.dat: No such file or directory (ENOENT)

The \proj\p309 directory does not contain file1. I think the error is coming
from the startup code. It seems to produce an error for every directory that
does not have any matching files.

Whats going on?


Nick

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