2014_5001@uwovax.uwo.ca (11/09/89)
Could someone pls tell me how to read a subdirectory under MeSsDOS 3.3? I have been trying the handle reads as Turbo C supports them, but MeSsDOS refuses to open the files (ERR: Access Denied). If I need to ue the read via fcb, could someone pls tell me how these interrupts work (I've spent a long time looking thru inter489, and still don't undersstand how to read x bytes from an fcb-specified file.) Of course, if possible, it would also be nice to know how to write subdirs. I know the directory format, and I know how to read the root dir... Any solutions in C / assembler would be appreciated, as long as they actually read the directory file. (I.e. doing a findfirst() findnext() sequence is not OK, because of how slow these calls are... I have a DI 0.5 (NU4.5) hard drive, and thus I cannot use this slow method...) Pls reply thru email to: Alex Pruss (Dept of Math or Physics, University of Western Ontario, Canada) a5001@nve.uwo.ca and not to the poster, nor by posting followups as I don't read the net anymore.