Posted by hussein on August 10, 1999 at 08:51:35:
In Reply to: Project 5 errata posted by student on August 10, 1999 at 01:33:33:
: 1) the way i currently have the program written, the user can specify a directory to start from (defaults to cwd), then the tree is built but NOT written to disk...
: 2) ...the user is then given the option to either a) write the tree to disk or b) search for a file from a previously written disk file
: my questions:
: 1) is this method alright?
yes.
: 2) do we need to still allow the user to do an "in memory" search
since the project is an "extension", you should give the user that option. if you had any problems with that part of project 3, take a look at my solution.
: 3) do we need to do checking to see if the file the user specifies to search is a valid search file (this would really suck, btw)
how would you check if a file is valid ?
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hussein