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Wind said...

Thanks Paolo.
The dir() would scan the directories/files and file.info() would scan the directories/files again. So the directories/files would be scanned twice, which would take a long time if there is thousands of files. In dos, dir/a would list the necessary information with one scan.

Jul 9, 2009, 8:23:38 AM

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