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pheffner@fang.att.com (Paul Heffner) writes:
: 
: Anyone out there know a way of obtaining the size and time/date
: information of a MS-DOS directory file using standard DOS calls
: under MASM? For a regular file, you can use Int 21, function 5700
: to get the time and date of an open file using its handle, likewise
: you can use the old seek-to-end trick to get the file size, but both 
: of these require an open file handle to work, and you can't open a
: directory file like in Unix (or can you?). The MS C stat function
: goes as far as returning what seems to be a good set of timestamp
: information, so I guess it's there for using if you know how to get
: it. (Or does that function resort to sneaky non-standard methods
: to get the info?) All input would be appreciated!
: 
: Thanks!
: 
: Heff


You can open a directory just like any other file, and read the time
and date stamp of any file there in.  The format is the same as that used
in the root directory.

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