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> From: nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren)
> 
> In article <42ko6e$h20@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com>,
> Michael Watson  <daneel@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >Is there any way to get the equivalent of a mkdir, rmdir, etc that is
> >complient with both Microsoft's compiler and Borland's compiler? I have
> >tried to find a way but can not.  If you have a way to do this, any
> >source, ideas, etc would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> This is not within the scope of the C standard, and is covered by the
> POSIX series of standards (for UNIX-like systems).  You need a POSIX
> library for those compilers.

True.  However, there is some interest in improving some features of
file I/O in C9X.  Two things that come to mind are file attributes
(e.g., "stat"-like features) and directories (e.g., the POSIX "dir"
services).  I think Doug Gwyn is investigating the directories features.
I have ``file attributes'' on my task list, but I probably won't get
to it until 1996.  Other people have mentioned streams-like stacks
(e.g., for doing compression and encryption), support for large files,
and implementation limits.  Since most of this is pretty much localized
within the library, this will probably get pushed to the end of the
C9X development process -- language and preprocessor issues will be
resolved first since they have much more impact on everything else.

-FF
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