From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: getting file attributes
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 21:38:39 +0300
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Kurt Aistinger wrote:
> 
> Is there a way how I can determine the attributes of a file with DJGPP?
> Actually I want to know if a certain file is a directory.
> The _dos_getfileattr() function doesn't support long filenames.
> Any suggestions?

You could use `stat', `findfirst', or `access' (with the D_OK argument).