Some senseless babbling from Will Honea to Mike Ruskai
on 11-13-99  14:06 about Missing Window control.....

 WH> MIKE RUSKAI wrote to WILL HONEA on 11-12-1999
 
 MR> I haven't run into anything like what you describe, but since I'm
 MR> not entirely certain what you're asking, I can't say whether or not
 MR> the problem exists.  I haven't had any programs have trouble seeing
 MR> directories which have had their contents changed, if that's close
 MR> to what you're getting at.
 MR> 
 MR> I've also not used PRM for quite some time, due to a problem that
 MR> no other program experienced, which they couldn't duplicate, much
 MR> less fix.

 WH> This got several programs.  Basically, when IBM started to maintain
 WH> the archive bit on  directory entries programs that didn't properly
 WH> account for the archive bit would not see directories where the
 WH> archive bit was set.  It wasn't an IBM error per se, just laziness and
 WH> sloppy coding on the part of some programmers but the result was
 WH> reasonably wide spread.  It was enough of a nuisance that I ran a
 WH> script every few days to reset all the archive bits on all directories
 WH> since I could never tell what program would mess up next.  FP 12
 WH> reverted to the early behavior.

Cripes.  I guess that means they just did an equality comparison with
FILE_DIRECTORY, rather than a bitwise AND, or using a bit field (my
preference), etc.

Pretty stupid.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


... Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit drinking.

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