Hi Charles.

02-Jul-03 13:57:02, Charles Angelich wrote to Neil Heller


 CA> 1237c2e2a999 c_echo

 CA> Hello Neil -

 WS>>> As for MessyDOS and "findfirst()" ? Well, I have
yet to try it
 WS>>> under GNU GCC. Maybe the Borland C Museum site has some
 WS>>> routines.

 NH>> Actually, findfirst and findnext are DOS BIOS routines. Both
 NH>> Borland and MS merely plug into the interrupt. You could roll
 NH>> your own, if worst comes to worst, but it may not work on a
 NH>> non-Intel-workalike.

 CA> The fact that Linux will mount FAT partitions and read the
 CA> directories would indicate that there _are_ libraries available to
 CA> emulate findfirst and findnext that 'gcc' can use.

no it doesn't.

it indicates that there is linux code to access a FAT volume consistenlty

Under linux you must use the unix API to read the directory of mounted FAT
volumes.

 -=> Bye <=-

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