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In article <kendall.78@sceng.ub.com> kendall@sceng.ub.com (Greg Kendall) writes:

>I'm trying to write code to copy the extended attriubtes from one file to
>another, which seems to be what XCOPY does.  Both DosFindFirst2 and 
>DosQFileInfo will get them for me, but they both wast the attributes names
>listed.  How do I get a list of all a file's ext. attr. names, or is there
>another API (that will just give them all to me) that I've missed?

Well, XCOPY cheats.

Technically, you should check out the DosEnumAttribute function to see about
enumerating all the extended attributes for a filesystem object.  I'm not
sure if it exists in OS/2 1.2, but it definitely does in 1.3 and 2.0.  That
should take care of what you want.

Unofficially, if you want to follow in XCOPY's footsteps, you can try using
using the (undocumented, unsupported, run your own risk, but it definitely
works on 1.x systems) level 4 option to DosQFile/PathInfo.  It will use the
supplied buffer to return a complete set of EA tags and values.

I don't recall how the buffer is formatted, but give it a shot and take a
look at the result and it will probably be clear.  It's likely something
like tag (null) value (null) tag (null) value (null) .... (null) (null).


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