Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 19:00:05 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Tom St Denis <stdenis AT compmore DOT net>
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	02 Jan 2001 14:13:30 GMT)
Subject: Re: findfirst/findnext woes
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> From: Tom St Denis <stdenis AT compmore DOT net>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 14:13:30 GMT
> >
> > On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Tom St Denis wrote:
> >
> > > Anyways... My code only finds the first file then findnext() returns
> > > 1... ALWAYS!
[snip]
> Here is the entire program (minus the bzip lib of course) (one huge
> main file... the way programs of this caliber should be written...
> hehehehe)
[snip]
>        f = findfirst(argv[3], &fb, FA_RDONLY|FA_HIDDEN|FA_SYSTEM|FA_ARCH);

You didn't supply one crucial piece of info: how did you invoke this
program.  However, from the code I'm guessing that you invoke it like
this:

       bz e archive *.c

The important part is that the last argument includes wildcard
characters.  Your intention was that the wildcard gets intact into the
program, where it is passed to findfirst as argv[3].

But that's not what happens with DJGPP.  In DJGPP programs, the
startup code always expands all the wildcards _before_ it puts them
into the argv[] array.  This is explained further in section 16.1 of
the DJGPP FAQ list.

So you actually pass to findfirst a single file name, the first file
that matches the widlcard typed on the command line.  That's why
findnext returns 1: there's only one file with that name, and
findfirst already found it.

What you want to do is to disable wildcard expansion in this program.
Section 16.2 of the FAQ will explain how.