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From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Subject: Re: 1 bug(?) open/readdir & glob
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Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 13:33:39 GMT
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Reposting article removed by rogue canceller.

On 20 Sep 1996, Erik L. Jensen wrote:

>> > In djgpp it really doesn't matter whether you'll use findfirst/findnext
>or
>> > readdir. readdir() uses find... anyway.
>> 
>> Yes, It doesnt matter , but the problem is why you mentioned about it.
>> 
>> 
>
>Infact, it does matter if you want to quickly get hold of information like
>file size, attributes etc.
Right, but I meant in terms of using find... vs readdir().

>A readir() followed by stat() is much more complicated (try going throug
>the stat() code) and
>does little more than findxxx anyway..
That's right, but to write Unix compatible code you have to use stat anyway...

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