Re: Standard Libraries: (was: and Lua marches on)

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Peter Cawley once stated:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> >  Under MS-DOS (and I assume, Windows), you have the following:
> >
> >        FindFirstFile()  - return first file in current working directory
> >        FindNextFile()   - return the next matching file
> >
> >  FindFirstFile() only works for the current working directory (unlike
> > Unix), it takes a simple file regex (a file glob) and some flags (include
> > archive files, read-only files, system files, etc) and fills in a structure
> > (the address of which is passed in first via another function) with the
> > following information (for Unix, another all is needed to obtain this
> > information):
> >
> >        name
> >        extention       (note: Unix does not use extentions---applications
> >                        might, but not the OS itself)
> >        timestamp
> >        filesize
> >        attribute       (hidden, system, read-only, etc)
> 
> Your assumption is incorrect - under Windows things are slightly
> different (read
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364418%28VS.85%29.aspx):
> FindFirstFile() works for any directory, does not take any flags, and
> takes the address of the structure directly. Said structure then
> contains:
> * attributes
> * multiple timestamps (creation time, access time, write time)
> * filesize
> * filename
> And of course, don't forget FindClose() to clean things up.

  Well, I'm not a Windows programmer, so I made an assumption that things
wouldn't be *too* different from Windows.  I don't think this changes my
base argument though.

  -spc (Which is, what's the least common demoninator here?)