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From: dbearly@vax1.tcd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: re : DOS dir command - how does it work
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.150315.7319@vax1.tcd.ie>
Date: 27 Nov 90 15:03:15 GMT
Organization: Trinity College Dublin
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Several programs I have written recently in TC use the findfirst/findnext
commands to locate directories and recurse the disk directory tree using
these functions. I would like to know how programs such as NORTONs ff
(find file ) seem to recurse the directory tree extremely quickly.
Anyone know how they do it??

		Dom.

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