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From: abcscnuk@csunb.csun.edu (Naoto Kimura (ACM))
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Subject: Re: Bug in TC findfirst()/findnext()!
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.165555.11363@csun.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 16:55:55 GMT
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In article <DEATH.91Feb26102938@kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz> Nathan.Torkington@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington) writes:
]In article <1991Feb25.192823.18224@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
]
] ... (text deleted) ...
] ... (description of problem: findfirst and findnext match regular
]      files, even though only the FA_DIREC attribute is selected) ...
]

If I'm not mistaken, this is because DOS performs this way !  I ran
across this problem when implementing a findfirst and findnext
procedure for Turbo Pascal (v 3.0).

Other strange things that occurr because of quirks in DOS.  Using TYPE
and I/O redirection to print a file to a serial port printer fails
miserably (you end up getting a "Printer out of paper error" whenever
the printer signals that its buffer is full), while using the COPY
command to copy to the printer works fine.

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