Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 20:11:16 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199804050111.UAA07328@delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: Myknees AT aol DOT com CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: <702a8615.3526ad8f@aol.com> (message from Myknees on Sat, 4 Apr 1998 17:00:45 EST) Subject: Re: findfirst attrib parameter -- I must be missing something Precedence: bulk > That implies that the regular files meet the qualification for exclusion. The > regular files have flag bits (0x20). So the regular files do have a flag bit No, regular files that haven't been backed up (archived - FA_ARCH) are excluded. Writable regular files that HAVE been backed up have an attribute byte of zero, and thus always meet the selection criteria for findfirst().