BS> look-alike functions to port PC code to *nix. This is 
 BS> just as useful and justfiable as when I wrote 
 BS> POSIXDIR.C to port *nix code to PC's.
I'm hoping I didn't come off sounding like I was saying Carey's design 
choices were unjustifiable or useless... :-)  If so, my sincere apologies to 
Carey - we may not always see eye-to-eye, but that was not my intention.  I 
just wanted to ensure compatability with *my* favourite OS.  :-)
 BS>   What's missing in the exchange so far is where 
 BS> DIRPORT fits into all this. The answer, quite simply, 
 BS> is that it doesn't - not directly anyway. DIRPORT 
I only pointed it out as showing what OS/2 does with findfirst/findnext.
 BS>   Of course, I think Carey is already on record as 
 BS> saying that portability, per se, is not his goal in 
 BS> this, so my point (if any!) may be moot. 
His goal, to me, seemed to be portability that didn't kill readability.  :-)
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