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Article #1039Re: findfirst() / _dos_findfirst()
From: Tom Wheeley
Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 00:00
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In article <831575697snz@wash.demon.co.uk>
john@wash.demon.co.uk "John Washington" writes:
> And Borland's help file indicates findfirst is only for
> dos and windows. How does one do the equiv thing in Unix?
> (No, I'm not thinking of porting prune to Unix, just
> curious).
AFAIK,
opendir(), readdir() and closedir() are the appropriate POSIX functions
You also need to use stat() for similar functionality to findfirst.. etc
(Discalimer, this is all hearsay^H^H^H^H^H^H^H from usenet :)
.splitbung
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