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- From: raymond@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Eric A. Raymond)
- Subject: Is findfirst/findnext deterministic? (same order each time)?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.020431.14831@kronos.arc.nasa.gov>
- Sender: usenet@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Will Edgington, wedgingt@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov)
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- Organization: NASA Ames Research Center
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 02:04:31 GMT
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- Are the DOS findfirst/findnext directory functions deterministic.
- That is, will they report the files in the same order for a given
- disk?
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- A related question, is the order the files are retrieved based upon
- creation order? That is, if I create files a, b, c in that order,
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