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Article #44Re: Help finding contents of current directory.
From: Tom Wheeley
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 01:53
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 01:53
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In article <4in24g$ota@airdmhor.gen.nz>
gumboot@airdmhor.gen.nz "Simon Hosie" writes:
> Dale Hollon (hollon@gate.net) wrote:
> > I am trying to get a listing of the files in the current directory. I realize
> I will have to use
> > stat to determin wether it is a file or a directory. But how do I find out
> what's in the
> > directory in the first place.
>
> Tommi Ylikulju:
> > I use _dos_findfirst and _dos_findnext functions to find out a listing of
> > files in a specific directory. Check C documention for more info about
> > those functions.
>
> Umm, they're very DOSish functions.. are there not UNIXish functions that
> do the same thing but are also supported by DOS compilers?
opendir, readdir and closedir
Similar to Findfirst and findnext under dos.
I doubt that you can use a construct directly accross unix/dos; you'll
probably need some #ifdefs :|
Maybe DJGPP supports the unix functions as is? I doubt it, seeing as it is
an OS call. We can't expect DOS to be POSIX now, can we :)
.splitbung
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!mail2news.demon.co.uk!tsys.demon.co.uk From: Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.misc,comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.comm,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.word-proc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.mfc,comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: Help finding contents of current directory. Date: Fri, 22 Mar 96 01:53:26 GMT Organization: City Zen FM Message-ID: <827459606snz@tsys.demon.co.uk> References: <4ho68l$qhi@ruby.digisys.net> <4hrjt1$jpr@news.microsoft.com> <3149D3CC.7D67@gate.net> <4icvkb$ogn@pinta.kolumbus.fi> <4in24g$ota@airdmhor.gen.nz> Reply-To: tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: tsys.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.30 X-Sig-By: Tomsystems Quote v1.2. (c)1996 Tom Wheeley, tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk X-Mail2News-Path: relay-4.mail.demon.net!post.demon.co.uk!tsys.demon.co.uk