CA> Last time I wrote any C code to use/display directory listings
CA> it seemed to me that there are no 'canned' routines for this
CA> and I was at liberty to do whatever I wanted to do with the raw
CA> data supplied by library routines that read the directory in
CA> DOS. There really isn't much there as I recall and I had to
CA> convert the data to be able to display human readable
CA> information on my own. :-\ 

It seems to me that the phrase "at liberty" above could be changed to 
"forced".  It's interesting in that the programmer is given the 
"freedom" to reinvent the wheel every time he wishes to display a 
directory listing (which isn't all that often, thank heavens).

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