Re: Help finding contents of current directory.

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From: Simon Hosie
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 19:32

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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?

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Subject: Re: Help finding contents of current directory.
Date: 20 Mar 1996 07:32:32 +1200
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