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echo: os2prog
to: Mark K Shumway
from: Mark Kimes
date: 1995-08-02 00:59:00
subject: Re: findfirst()

MK>So what general strategy should be employed? Case in point:  I'm writing a
 MK>FidoNet message tosser.  I would like to get all the names of the ARCmail
 MK>bundles that are waiting in an inbound area, so that they can be
 MK>decompressed and processed.  Additionally, I want to process them in order
 MK>by creation date.

You do it the same old way -- it's just that, under OS/2, you can
request that the OS find more than one file at a time.  But given what
you're doing, the benefits will be minimal, unless you'll be dealing
with directories full of *.MSG files.

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