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At 14:09 13/08/01 +0100, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
>> How useful would it be to have Allegro provide a portable equivalent to
>> find_*? I mean, how often would these functions actually be used?
>> Speaking for myself, I probably wouldn't have much use for such functions
>
>To find installed plugins, save game files ....
Ok, granted, I'd probably find a use for file_exists()
>> and if I did, I'd use the POSIX opendir()/readdir() functions,
>> not whatever
>> is provided by Allegro.
>
>I was tempted to answer opendir and friends as an alternative for
>finfirst/findnext, since it is standard (POSIX), but I checked on
>MSDN and ((not) surprisingly) MSVC does not have them :)
Well, that's naturally true. Then again, all ports of gcc I'm aware of do
have them and personally that's good enough for me (although I quite
realize it isn't good enough for everyone).