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From: frotz@drivax.UUCP (Frotz)
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Subject: Re: which archiver/compresser and encoder/decoder to use?
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Date: 26 Feb 90 17:29:54 GMT
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brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:

] Is it better to break the purity of the DABE code (currently only 4 short
] ifdefs for setting file modes/times etc.) to add DOS directory scans?

	Actually, depending on your compiler, you might want to add
the support via opendir(), readdir(), closedir().  I have a tendency
(picked up from Rahul's code) to have separate modules for each
platform.  Local rumor has it that I have the source for the Turbo C
2.0 opendir/readdir/closedir functionality.  I have not actually cut
any of my code over from the traditional Turbo C 2.0 MSDOS Functions,
but I requested a port of the functions that Wayne Davison
(davison@drivax.UUCP) did for a DOS--OS/2 port of GNUDiff (MSC 5.1) so
that I could eliminate some code in one of my projects.  It is
available for any takers with the proviso that I have not tested it
personally. 

	If this is not an option, then I would "MS-DOS? 'Just say
No!'"

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