Re: Help finding contents of current directory.

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From: Carl Verner Skou
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 19:00

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

In Windows 3.1 use: _dos_findfirst( "*.*", _A_NORMAL | _A_SUBDIR, &c_file );
and _dos_findnext();, examine the attribute c_file.attrib to find out if it is 
a file or directory.

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yours Carl Verner Skou

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From: carlvern@psy.aau.dk (Carl Verner Skou)
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Subject: Re: Help finding contents of current directory.
Date: 16 Mar 1996 19:00:09 GMT
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