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Article #48Re: Help finding contents of current directory.
From: Keith Burton
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 07:43
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 07:43
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Greetings, I've been using the Win32 "FindFirstFile" and "FindNextFile" functions without any problems. Keith Burton Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk> wrote: >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 >-- >* TQ 1.0 * The 'Just So Quotes'. >Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the >ones in movies. > -- Bill Bulko
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