Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:36:02 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
cc: Emad Boctor <eboctor AT interlog DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Does any body know about ftw() in djgpp?
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On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> > To the best of my knowledge, neither of these two support `ftw'.
> > `ftw' is included for compatibility with Unix compilers.
> 
> In which case, its location in the source archive in `libc/dos/dir' is
> rather inappropriate.   Should it go instead in the `compat' tree?

Probably.  But I didn't decide on that location ;-).

> > However, since the sources of DJGPP's library are free, you could just
> > download djlsr201.zip and compile the sources of `ftw' with any other
> > compiler.
> 
> But it will have to support `opendir' and friends, and I believe
> Borland, for one, does not.

This is incorrect.  BC supports these functions beginning with version 
3.0.