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From: ballerup@diku.dk (Per Goetterup)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: FindFirst
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.134936.13981@odin.diku.dk>
Date: 10 Apr 91 13:49:36 GMT
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Robert_Salesas@mindlink.UUCP (Robert Salesas) writes:

=>I'm having a problem with FindFirst in Turbo Pascal 6.  I modified the List
=>demo by exluding the ReadOnly flag in the attributes.  This should not include
=>readonly files, yet it does.  Anyone have an idea why?

Another related problem, maybe with the same cause:

Try simply to search for directories using the 'Directory' attribute mask
and you'll not only find directories but also close to everything else (I
think, perhaps VolumeID's excluded).

This is NOT directly a bug in TP because it also happens if you try the same
in assembler! - A bug in DOS it seems!

Perhaps Borland COULD have included a work-around in their code by simply
checking the found file's attributes and search again if it didn't match...

I do just that myself and it's not really a big bother, but still - it is
SUPPOSED to work...!

	Hack on...

		Per.

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