Folders and hidden files

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From: Guenter Berner
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 09:05

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 `>  When using DosFindFirst and DosFindNext to retrieve the contents
 `> of a directory, how do i get directories and hidden files?

 `> I can get the normally visible files using the FILE_NORMAL 
 `> attribute, but cannot find aything else in the Programmer's Reference...

Try FILE_READONLY, FILE_HIDDEN, FILE_SYSTEM, FILE_DIRECTORY, etc...
If you 're programming under V2 you can also try MUST_HAVE_DIRECTORY, 
MUST_HAVE_SYSTEM,... which will exclude all files with non-matching attributes.


Guenter

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From: Guenter_Berner@dungeon.fido.de (Guenter Berner)
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Subject: Folders and hidden files
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