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On 10 Aug 2001, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> An unidentified Australian guy ;-)
(sort of)
> has put an "Emulate findfirst" entry in the Win32 section of the
> todo file. I don't agree with him for the following reasons:
I thought you had agreed to the emulation.
> - findfirst() and struct ffblk are clearly DOS-isms, and the main goal of
> Allegro is not to propagate them ;-)
> - the Win32 libc has got its own version, dubbed _findfirst(),
> - findfirst() and its two sisters are superfluous in the API: the same
> results can be achieved with for_each_file(), file_size() and file_time(),
As bad as `findfirst' is, `for_each_file' is not as good. You
cannot stop short of reading the entire list, for one.
> - code bloat.
... very little, I thought, since Win32 libc has already got it.
Anyway, I don't really care either way, but someone will have to
update the docs. ("If your platform doesn't have the find* set
of functions, Allegro will emulate them.")