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- From: mkohtala@lesti.hut.fi (Marko Kohtala)
- Subject: Re: Is findfirst/findnext deterministic? (same order each time)?
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1993Jan2.071846.22403@netcom.com> <JViRwB4w165w@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 17:50:25 GMT
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- In <JViRwB4w165w@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca> rick@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca (Rick Vandenberg) writes:
- >pdh@netcom.com (Phil Howard ) writes:
- >> raymond@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Eric A. Raymond) writes:
- >> >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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- To make a point to all the replies to this question, I must remind you
- that not much is guaranteed of the operation of those functions.
- OS/2, NT and any installable file system will implement their own ways
- to order the files.
-
- So one should not rely on some file system feature that depends on FAT
- and MS-DOS, at least unless makes sure there IS FAT and MS-DOS and not
- some emulator.
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- Marko Kohtala - INTERNET:Marko.Kohtala@hut.fi, mkohtala@otax.tky.hut.fi
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