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- From: pheffner@fang.att.com (Paul Heffner)
- Subject: Stat-ing a Directory file
- Message-ID: <BxGsCA.Lnu@fang.att.com>
- Organization: AT&T BAP Architecture, Maitland FL
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:48:06 GMT
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- Anyone out there know a way of obtaining the size and time/date
- information of a MS-DOS directory file using standard DOS calls
- under MASM? For a regular file, you can use Int 21, function 5700
- to get the time and date of an open file using its handle, likewise
- you can use the old seek-to-end trick to get the file size, but both
- of these require an open file handle to work, and you can't open a
- directory file like in Unix (or can you?). The MS C stat function
- goes as far as returning what seems to be a good set of timestamp
- information, so I guess it's there for using if you know how to get
- it. (Or does that function resort to sneaky non-standard methods
- to get the info?) All input would be appreciated!
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- Thanks!
-
- Heff
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