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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Standardization
Keywords: Menus
Message-ID: <5092@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 88 20:53:48 GMT
References: <1314@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <2287@cadovax.UUCP> <221@antares.UUCP>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <221@antares.UUCP> jms@antares.UUCP (joe smith) writes:
>Keeping a list of what's in a directory is great, as long as you can
>guarentee that nothing has changed the directory behind your back.  Think
>of how frustrating it would be if a program refused to acknowlege the
>existance of a file that you had just created from another window.

	Just do an Examine, and compare the change data for the
directory with the old change date: if they're different, something may
have changed.  If not, not problem.

-- 
You've heard of CATS? Well, I'm a member of DOGS: Developers Of Great Software.
Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup