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From: Robert Hoehne <Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Problems with findfirst/findnext under DOS/Win95 and DJGPP 2.0
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 12:25:17 +0200
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To: Olivier Bouton <chiron AT worldnet DOT fr>
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Olivier Bouton wrote:

> I wanted to translate one of my C++ DOS (real mode) program to DJGPP that use
> findfirst/findnext; it compiled OK, but when it calls findfirst/findnext, names
> of files it find (pointed by ffblk.ff_name) don't have their first two chars !
> 

This is a known bug in cc1plus (the C++ compiler). To solve your problem you should
use either a C-file for the functions which handle with the ffblk struct or you do this
like I. I wrote a little C-file with functions for accessing the fields in the struct and
call this functions from from a C++-file. The C-file looks like this:

-------------------------------------------
#include <dir.h>
unsigned short ffattrib(struct ffblk *ff)
{
  return ff->ff_attrib;
}
unsigned short ffdate(struct ffblk *ff)
{
  return ff->ff_fdate;
}
unsigned short fftime(struct ffblk *ff)
{
  return ff->ff_ftime;
}
unsigned long ffsize(struct ffblk *ff)
{
  return ff->ff_fsize;
}
char * ffname(struct ffblk *ff)
{
  return ff->ff_name;
}
-------------------------------------------

If I want to access the ff_name field of a ffblk-variable I call the function ffname.

Robert
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