From:	ertung AT ponder DOT csci DOT unt DOT edu (ERTUNG BORA)
Message-Id:	<9609201747.AA09431@ponder>
Subject:	Re: 1 bug(?) open/readdir & glob
To:	grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl (Mark Habersack)
Date:	Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:47:04 -0500 (EDT)
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To:	<Pine.NEB.3.95.960920152442.6416F-100000@ananke.amu.edu.pl> from "Mark Habersack" at Sep 20, 96 03:28:07 pm
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> On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, ERTUNG  BORA wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >readdir works fine, but there is definitely something wrong with
> >findfirst/findnext functions of djgpp. These two function works really
> >terrible. However, you can use opendir/readdir functions to read the
> >current directory.     
> What's so terrible about find...? The only problem with them is the famous
> bug with cutting off first two letters of filename (if anyone asks about it
> again I think I'll go puke)

Then go head and puke, who cares. When I use findfirst/findnext,some of my 
local
and global variables are also corrupted by these two functions. Indeed,
I havent committed that bug that you told in your posting. 



> In djgpp it really doesn't matter whether you'll use findfirst/findnext or
> readdir. readdir() uses find... anyway.

Yes, It doesnt matter , but the problem is why you mentioned about it.


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