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- From: Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Help finding contents of current directory.
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 96 01:53:26 GMT
- Organization: City Zen FM
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- In article <4in24g$ota@airdmhor.gen.nz>
- gumboot@airdmhor.gen.nz "Simon Hosie" writes:
-
- > Dale Hollon (hollon@gate.net) wrote:
- > > I am trying to get a listing of the files in the current directory. I realize
- > I will have to use
- > > stat to determin wether it is a file or a directory. But how do I find out
- > what's in the
- > > directory in the first place.
- >
- > Tommi Ylikulju:
- > > I use _dos_findfirst and _dos_findnext functions to find out a listing of
- > > files in a specific directory. Check C documention for more info about
- > > those functions.
- >
- > Umm, they're very DOSish functions.. are there not UNIXish functions that
- > do the same thing but are also supported by DOS compilers?
-
- opendir, readdir and closedir
-
- Similar to Findfirst and findnext under dos.
-
- I doubt that you can use a construct directly accross unix/dos; you'll
- probably need some #ifdefs :|
-
- Maybe DJGPP supports the unix functions as is? I doubt it, seeing as it is
- an OS call. We can't expect DOS to be POSIX now, can we :)
-
- .splitbung
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