On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
michael.vancann...@wisa.be schrieb:
I repeat: you didn't search very well.
Yes, I was not lucky enough :-(
IMO a separation into topics "File handling" (FILE based) and "File
management" (by filename) would be a good idea. Now I also found an topic
"General File handling routines", but it seems to list only Posix
functions, not avaialble on other platforms - should read "Posix File ..."
instead?
Where did you find this topic ?
Hmm, you didn't search very well, too? ;-)
#rtl/oldlinux/filehandlingroutines.html
Duh... This unit is really outdated :-)
A search on "file handling" in rtl.chm returns a list of near 100 hits, some
of which are really procedures. RenameFile is missing from that list, instead
it contains many "Reference for unit ..." entries.
I can't comment on the quality of the search engine in CHM.
I will investigate what can be done to make the topics more clear and
helpful.
And make them more easy to find.
I understand that entries without tags are hard to find, but adding tags only
would open another can of worms <sigh>. So the only solution, that I can see,
is adding overview topics for categories of routines, with a list of the
overviews at least in every package. The lists of overviews for a unit are of
little use in a general search, when the units of interest are not yet known.
Yes.
As already mentioned, I still miss platform independent versions of the
file management routines. Lazarus implements some routines, but IMO these
should become part of the RTL, not of FCL or LCL.
Which ones do you think are missing apart from FileSize ?
Give me a link to the directory handling topic, then I can tell you more. Ah,
found it: "FileName handling routines" (sysutils). At a first glance there is
nothing missing, except FileSize. Perhaps ForceDirectories...
I don't understand. ForceDirectories exists in sysutils?
Michael.
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