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> I tried his original snippet on MinGW32 + Win2K using Allegro 4.1.5. (He
> was using DJGPP + Win2K on Allegro 4.1.6.)
>
> I had a bunch of text files, and I did an "attrib -a" on a couple of them
> to remove the archive flag. I did a "attrib" to confirm that the archive
> bit was unset. I then ran the code below, and they all worked fine.
Yes, I think the Windows version works now correctly wrt this problem.
> I then right-clicked on the file, and modified a bunch of properties,
> including "Indexing", "Compression", and "Encryption", and it always was
> displayed by allegro.
>
> The only time it was not displayed was when I marked the "Hidden"
> attribute. I think that's by design?
If you didn't pass the FA_HIDDEN flag, yes.
> Anyway those flags always did confuse me. :P
They seem to confuse everyone...
> This may be a DJGPP + Win2K issue? I don't have DJGPP on this system, but I
> could try if it would be of any help.
I think so. But IMHO it is not worth while to spend too much time debugging
that sort of problem, the DOS support in Win2k is a big mess, to say the
least.
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Eric Botcazou