Novell drives may not have . and .. in the directory listing (I think it
depends on a setting on the server). So, the answer is No, it is not safe.
In fact, you cannot even guarantee that . and .. will be the first two
entry - they may be elsewhere.
Regards,
Dennis.
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Grant Black
> Sent: Thursday, 17 February 2000 14:05
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: [DUG]: Directory listing
>
>
> I noticed a bit of code recently that returns a list of files
> in a directory
> using FindFirst ... FindNext procedures.
>
> The programmer then strips the first two items from the
> string list with the
> assumption being that these will always be '.' and '..' directories.
>
> Safe assumption?
>
> (I will probably just change the FindFirst to return
> faAnyFiles-faDirectories which also works but just wondered..)
>
> Grant Black
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