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From: reino@cs.eur.nl (Reino de Boer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: FindFirst
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.121824.9276@cs.eur.nl>
Date: 17 Apr 91 12:18:24 GMT
References: <5511@mindlink.bc.ca>
Reply-To: reino@cs.eur.nl
Organization: Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Before this gets any more confusing....

In <5511@mindlink.bc.ca> Robert_Salesas@mindlink.bc.ca (Robert Salesas) writes:

>I fully understand that the files optained are in addition to "normal" files.
>However, the manual does not say what normal files are, yet it does provide the
>Archive and ReadOnly files in the ANYFILE constant AND
>it provides an example with the ARCHIVE constant.  This implies that
>Archive and Readonly return differet selections than if they are not used.
>When I checked the norton guide, it said (_SPECIFICALLY_) that archive and
>readonly files are returned regardless of the flags.
			     ^^^^^^^^^^NOT TRUE (see item 3 below)

The attribute controls the search as follows (freely translated from the
MS-DOS encyclopedia):
1.  If the attribute is $00, only normal files are included in the search.
2.  If the attribute has any combination of bits 1, 2, and 4 (Hidden,
    System, and Directory bits) set, the search includes normal files
    as well as files with any of the attributes specified.
3.  If the attribute has bit 3 set (VolumeID bit), only a matching
    volume label is returned.
4.  Bits 0 and 5 (ReadOnly and Archive bits) are ignored.
From which we can conclude that only Hidden, System, Directory, and
VolumeID bits indicate non-normal files.

Hope this helps -- Reino
-- 
Reino R. A. de Boer     "We want to build the right product right, right?"
Erasmus University Rotterdam ( Informatica )
e-mail: reino@cs.eur.nl