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000060_icon-group-sender _Wed Mar 24 08:23:24 1999.msg
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by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id IAA02782
for icon-group-addresses; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:23:13 -0700 (MST)
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:29:38 +1200 (NZST)
From: "Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz>
To: hgs@dmu.ac.uk, icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Subject: Re: opendir/readdir in Icon?
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Status: RO
Hugh Sasse wrote:
I think every machine I have used since about 1978 which had a disk
supported heirarchical directory structures.
Then you haven't used VM/CMS or RT-11 or the old Mac filesystem.
(The old Mac file system had nested *folders* but no actual
directories, file names had to be unique on a disc.)
However, I cannot find
anything in the Icon book or the online docs about how to test a "file" to
see if it is a file or a directory, or how to list a directory without
making a call to some program outside Icon.
Note that there are no such functions in standard C either.
Is there really no equivalent to opendir and readdir in Icon?
"Portable" Icon, right.l
Or where should I be looking?
Unicon.