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Re: Help finding contents of current directory.

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From: Keith Burton
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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