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to: ROWAN CROWE
from: LAWRENCE GORDON
date: 1995-03-19 15:38:00
subject: Findfirst/Findnext implementation

Quoting Rowan Crowe to All:
RC> Hello All,
RC>     Recently I read of someone who was having problems with
RC> findfirst/findnext, and he was using Powerbasic. I cannot find the origin
RC> message, in either this or the BASIC7 area, so I hope he will see this.
RC>     He mentioned that the "start cluster" remained constant for all files
RC> the reason for this is simple. It's the start cluster of the _directory_,
RC> not the file itself.
RC>     If you need to find the start cluster of the file, you will most like
RC> have to look at the directory entries directly. You can use findfirst to
RC> get the starting cluster of the dir, at least. :-)
If he's using PB, tell him to check his docs on DIR$. The first call
to DIR$ finds the file pattern, and all subsequent calls will return
any other matching files.
-=> Lawrence <=-
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