Re: Common bug: findfirst issue / List of other FreeDOS application bug

Hi All,

  This also sounds like the bug I have when trying to use XFS networking
with freedos.

  dir e:  -- works OK
  dir e:*.bat -- no files found

  I hope so.

  I am looking forward to testing the fix.

  regards,
  john


On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Eric Auer wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> after discussing a bug in FIND with Jim (jhall), I thought it would be
> appropriate to do further testing with other programs as well...
> 
> The bug: findfirst() in Turbo C uses the semantics of the FCB version,
> not the filehandle version, of the DOS API (did not check which int 21
> call it actually uses), so it cannot take drive/path, only plain filenames
> (with wildcards).
> 
> The symptom:
> c:\foo> find "test" \autoexec.bat
> results in a "file not found" error because findfirst cannot handle the "\",
> nor would it be able to handle other path/drive stuff. Actually, find may try
> to search autoexec.bat in the current directory instead. As Jim knows about
> the bug now, a fix is already underway.
>