[Oorexx-devel] SysFileTree under win32 : beware to short file names !

[Jean-Louis F. <jfa...@gm...>]

Hi,

Maybe this is already a known problem by the group, but I was unaware of
that till today...

Under win32 (and probably win64), call SysFileTree "*.odg", "files", "FO"
will return all the following files :
f.odga
f.odg1
.~lock.dlgArea.odg#

This is because the search made by FindFirstFile (and FindNextFile) includes
the long *and short file names* (see MSDN).
This link brings more details :
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/07/20/440918.aspx

After googling, I did not find a way to bypass this win32 problem.
I leave you decide if it's worth noting this odd behavior in the
documentation of SysFileTree...

Jean-Louis