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to: Paul Edwards
from: Bob Lawrence
date: 1996-12-27 09:33:00
subject: os/2 hang

BL> The only thing that's got me beat is the "Newest:" file entry.
 BL> How the hell do I know which is the last file added? I can do
 BL> it with the TIC entries, but I can't see a way to do it
 BL> otherwise, short of keeping two sets of files listings...

 PE> The newest files are determined by looking at the dates of the
 PE> files in the directory!

  No... that's no good. What if you added an old file?

 PE> But that's a fancy option that I don't care whether it exists
 PE> or not. Like I say, it's only got to compete with "dir xxxx"
 PE> >>temp.txt.

  It does that already... but I've found a nasty bug. It never fails.
I zipped it all up to send it off to you, your board was down (as
usual) so I had another look... and found the dreadful error!

Regards,
Bob
 
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