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From: gert@nikhefh.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Problems with Fattrib on a directory
Message-ID: <252@nikhefh.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 03:24:18 EST
Article-I.D.: nikhefh.252
Posted: Fri Feb 20 03:24:18 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Feb-87 01:45:46 EST
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Reply-To: gert@nikhefh.UUCP (Gert Poletiek)
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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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
>
>
>Hi,
>
>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.
>
>Am I doing something wrong ? Or isn't supposed to give the attributes of a
>directory ?
>
>I get the correect results for files (ie. read only).
>
>Can any one help ?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Andrew Smith.


	Try this:


mode ( name )
char	*name;
{
	struct DTA	myDta, *oldDta;

	oldDta = (struct DTA *)Fgetdta();
	Fsetdta ( myDta );
	if (( errno = Fsfirst ( name, -1 ) < 0 ))
		return ( -1 );  /* this can never be a valid mode */
	Fsetdta ( oldDta );
	return ( myDta.attr );
}



Succes...


Gert Poletiek
Dutch National Institute for High Energy Physics