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From: davea@col.hp.com (David E Allen)
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Subject: Re: Fattrib and detecting directories
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Date: 20 Sep 90 18:58:07 GMT
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jmw@tasis.eecs.utas.edu.au (John Williams) /  6:42 am  Sep 19, 1990 /
> Is Fattrib able to report on directories?

My experience is the same as yours - NO. I use Fsfirst(). It will return the
correct attribute for a directory, although it's a bit more work, having to
set up a disk transfer buffer first (using Fsetdtc(), I believe).

I'm using TOS 1.?  I wonder if it's fixed in 1.4?

dave allen, colorado