Subj : Bug in internal DosFindF
To   : Lee Aroner
From : Eddy Thilleman
Date : Thu Mar 29 2001 03:10 am

Hello Lee,

Tuesday 27 March 2001 22:57, Lee Aroner wrote to Jonathan De Boyne Pollar:

LA>> The DOS support in OS/2 does appear to use a badly written
LA>> FindFirst/FindNext call, however it has a serious bug that
LA>> results in a return of a maximum of about 38,000 files per call.

JdBP>> That's interesting.  From what did you deduce this ?

LA> From an easily reproducible error from a search routine in a DOS app I
LA> wrote years ago, which we had a discussion about two years or so ago.

This demonstrates that you didn't read my original post at all. :)

I don't call FindFirst/FindNext (not in this app) at all, and the problem is an 
entirely different one and it's not in a DOS box at all. The issue is a lower 
speed with a compiled Pascal OS/2 program compiled with Virtual Pascal/2, 
compared with the same Pascal program as DOS program compiled with Borland 
Pascal and the same program implemented in REXX code.

Should I repost my message just for you?


  Greetings   -=Eddy=-

  email: e.thilleman@freeler.nl
         e.thilleman@hccnet.nl

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