From: "Erik L. Jensen" <eljensen AT online DOT no>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: 1 bug(?) open/readdir & glob
Date: 20 Sep 1996 20:25:45 GMT
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> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 

Infact, it does matter if you want to quickly get hold of information like
file size, attributes etc.
A readir() followed by stat() is much more complicated (try going throug
the stat() code) and
does little more than findxxx anyway..

-Erik-