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> How useful would it be to have Allegro provide a portable equivalent to
> find_*? I mean, how often would these functions actually be used?
Quite a lot, when programs are developed with only DJGPP in mind, as all
early
Allegro programs were.
> Speaking for myself, I probably wouldn't have much use for such functions
> and if I did, I'd use the POSIX opendir()/readdir() functions, not
whatever
> is provided by Allegro.
If these are complete replacements then for sure POSIX functions are better
in principle and for future use. In practice I find all my old code needs
converting but I am not yet sure what to