From: "Ben Davis" <ben AT vjpoole DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Best way to implement DELTREE
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 03:46:10 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii wrote in message <38EA1EA7 DOT 6A8E81BE AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>...
>You can use the directory-traversal functions provided in the library.  The
>function `ftw' is portable to Unix systems; the function `__file_tree_walk'
>is DJGPP-specific, but is usually much faster.  Look them up in the library
>docs.

I've considered that, but they both check directories before they check the
subdirectories. If I'm deleting, I need to empty a directory before I remove
it.

By the way, I don't think 'siblings' is the right word, as used in the docs
and the source; it normally means brothers or sisters. Therefore it is
paradoxical to say, "This function always visits a directory before any of
its siblings," as being a sibling is mutual! (Doesn't matter really.)