Re: Help finding contents of current directory.

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From: Chris Marriott
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 22:13

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In article <3149D3CC.7D67@gate.net>, Dale Hollon <hollon@gate.net>
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>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.

Win16: call "_dos_findfirst", "_dos_findnext"
Win32: call "FindFirstFile", "FindNextFile", "FindClose".

To get information about a file/directory you retrieve with either of
those methods, call "_stat".

Chris
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