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From: silk@dhw68k.cts.com (Mitch Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Findfirst
Message-ID: <1990Jul13.232754.29083@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 13 Jul 90 23:27:54 GMT
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Reply-To: silk@dhw68k.cts.com (Mitch Gorman)
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In article <23854@adm.BRL.MIL> elric%FSU@pucc.princeton.edu (Commodore 128 User) writes:
> You need to have it search for 'archive' type files.  [...]

	NO, I SAY.  Now, I say 'nay'!!

	What if you've just used [fill in your favorite disk backup program
here] to back up your disk.  If you tell/allow it, that program will usually
go back and changed all those files' attributes to _TURN_OFF_ the archive flag.

	The smart way to do this, guaranteed to find any and all honest-to-god
files, is "findfirst(..., anyfile - directory - volumeid, ...);".  

	And dat's da twooth.


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