Re: Cannot retrieve file date

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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:35

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"Jos�" <jose@127.0.0.1> wrote in message 
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> The help file only says that a handle must be passed, so it's
> obvious to use fopen().

You are reading the Win32 API help file.  It has no concept of the C runtime 
functions.  Everything in that help files expects handles that are provided 
by the Win32 API only.

> Anyhow, CreateFile() won't do, I want to know the time of an existing 
> file.

In order to use GetFiletime(), you must use CreateFile() to get a suitable 
file handle.  Otherwise, use stat() or fstat() instead.

> It is usually not very useful to create a file and obtain the date
> immediately afterwards.

If you read the documentation for CreateFile(), you will see that it is used 
for both opening existing files as well as creating new files.

> My only current solution is findfirst() . This also returns the date of a 
> file.

That is another option.


Gambit

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