SF Failure on NTFS

A few days ago, I attempted to fire up SF and the it failed
to find fpconfig.f. To make a LONG story short, this turned
out to be the first invocation of REQUIRES.

A few weeks ago, because my hard drive was acting a bit
flaky, I turned off content indexing on it. This turns on
the 'I' attribute on files on NTFS drives.

It seems the internals of REQUIRES has a problem when this
attribute is set. After I reindexed the SwiftForth
directory tree, REQUIRES worked again.

Since this is, apparently, the first report of this problem,
no other SF user has turned off content indexing. When
someone at Forth, Inc. has some spare time <g>, I suggest
thoroughly checking all code acting on the results of
GetFileAttributes.

Bill
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Received on Fri Dec 20 2002 - 23:56:52 PST