Date:	Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:36:02 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
cc:	Emad Boctor <eboctor AT interlog DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Does any body know about ftw() in djgpp?
In-Reply-To:	<35BD558A.2F748837@cartsys.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980728113448.4133Y-100000@is>
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On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> > To the best of my knowledge, neither of these two support `ftw'.
> > `ftw' is included for compatibility with Unix compilers.
> 
> In which case, its location in the source archive in `libc/dos/dir' is
> rather inappropriate.   Should it go instead in the `compat' tree?

Probably.  But I didn't decide on that location ;-).

> > However, since the sources of DJGPP's library are free, you could just
> > download djlsr201.zip and compile the sources of `ftw' with any other
> > compiler.
> 
> But it will have to support `opendir' and friends, and I believe
> Borland, for one, does not.

This is incorrect.  BC supports these functions beginning with version 
3.0.

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