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From: bammi@cwruecmp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Problems with Fattrib on a directory
Message-ID: <1882@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 14:04:15 EST
Article-I.D.: cwruecmp.1882
Posted: Wed Feb 18 14:04:15 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Feb-87 21:29:46 EST
References: <8702170915.AA29778@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: bammi@cwruecmp.UUCP (Jwahar R. Bammi)
Organization: CWRU Dept. of Computer Engineering, Cleveland, Ohio
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In article <8702170915.AA29778@jade.berkeley.edu> UDAC041%UK.AC.KCL.CC.VAXA@ac.uk writes:
>Subject:  Fattrib problems reading directories
>
>
>I have been using 'Fattrib' gemdos function to read the attributes of a
>directory but all it returns is 0 without bit 0x10 set to indicate that
>it is a directory.
>
	I too came across this `bug', and reported it to Atari. Only god
knows if they are doing something about it. Anyway, the work around is to
use Fsfirst() after setting up your Dta, and then picking up the attributes
from the Dta. That works just fine.
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