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From: rld@druhi.UUCP (DucharmeRL)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: stat() on devices
Message-ID: <1038@druhi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 12:13:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: druhi.1038
Posted: Mon Sep 22 12:13:54 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Sep-86 22:22:56 EDT
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Organization: AT&T Information System Labs, Denver, Co
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Keywords: stat, C compilers

I am writing a program on a PC6300+ that does a stat() function call [using
Microsoft C compiler version 3.0] on the following - "a:".  This always returns
ax=ffff as a failure.  However, stat("a:new", &stat_buf) does return a valid
status.  Replacing "a:" with a "a:\\" does not help and if you do a "ls -la"
(UNIX command transported to MSDOS), there is no "." or ".." files on the
floppy or in the root directory of "c:".  Could this be why the stat fails
to work for the root directories?  My basic intent of the stat() is to find
out if the file is a directory or not (I pass the command a "a:"). Further
information is that I am running PC-DOS 3.10 on the PC6300+ with a 20MB hard
disk and a 1.2Mb Floppy.

Thanks in advance:
	Robert Ducharme
	ihnp4!druri!rld
	(303)  538-4066