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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Can I read a subdirectory file ?
Message-ID: <1990Dec31.183014.27114@uwasa.fi>
Date: 31 Dec 90 18:30:14 GMT
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In article <1990Dec29.195859.28295@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
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>I don't quite understand this.  Why can't one change the
>subdirectory file attribute temporarily not to be directory, do
>one's reading and change it back.  Or to be on the safe side, copy
>the file, change back and then browse the copied file.  Turbo Pascal
>at least should have the facilities to do this.  I have to admit,
>though, that this is partly guesswork on my part, since I have not
>tried out exactly this procedure, but only something similar for a
>slightly different purpose.  (Of course it would be relatively easy
>to test whether this is so, or not.)

I have now tested this, and my guesswork was wrong.  Simple as that. 
Turbo Pascal's SetFAttr won't properly reset a directory attribute
even if it resets the others.

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