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From: swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU (SWARBRICK FRANCIS JOHN)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Turbo C Date Conversion
Keywords: Turbo C, date
Message-ID: <3968@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 25 Jan 88 19:39:51 GMT
References: <454@picuxa.UUCP>
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In article <454@picuxa.UUCP> rcr@picuxa.UUCP (Richard Court ) writes:
:I am writing a program to list directory attributes.  I am using the
:"findfirst" and "findnext" routines to extract file information for me
:and then "strcpy" data out of the "ffblk" structure to fill my arrays.
:
:What I can't figure out is how to convert the file date and time.  They
:are placed in the ffblk structure as packed integers and I'll be damned
:if I can figure out a way to get them into strings!

Get a good DOS programming book such as "Advanced MS-DOS."  I would tell
you exactly how, except I am at school and the book is at home.  It's a
very good book to have, anyway.

Frank Swarbrick (and his cat)
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