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From: jstev AT gladstone DOT uoregon DOT edu (Josh Stevens)
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Subject: Re: Findfirst works in beta4
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 02:55:19 GMT
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Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> wrote:

>> There is no other copy of dir.h anywhere else on my system.  All the
>> h files I'm using are straight from the beta4 archives.  Do you have
>> any other suggestions?  Thanks.

>Write a small test program which does a findfirst on argv[1] and prints
>sizeof(ffblk) and each field in the block.  Are you using the distribution
>GCC?  It's like the packed attribute is being ignored (?).

When I do this, the total of the sizes of the individual fields comes
up two bytes short of the size of the structure.

>Does stat() work on a file?  It calls findfirst() but was compiled with
>a consistent structure.

As far as I can tell, stat() works perfectly.

-Josh