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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: get the file directory
Keywords: directory
Message-ID: <1989Nov15.142807.3724@virtech.uucp>
Date: 15 Nov 89 14:28:07 GMT
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In article <1724@unccvax.UUCP>, cs00wsc@unccvax.UUCP (Shiang Chin) writes:
> I am trying to the file list of a file directory on
> Sun station running Unix. Can someone read the following
> C code for me; I don't know what's wrong on my code.
> 
  [ example of reading fixed length directory entries deleted ]

> If anyone knows the problem, please tell me how to solve this.
> Thanks a lot.

The problem is that Sun uses a BSD style directory that does not have
fixed length directory entries.  You should use the opendir(), readdir(), etc
library calls to process the directory entries.

Doug gwyn posted a portable version of these directory utilities (that 
work for both system V and BSD file systems) to comp.sources.unix (I think). 

You can either use the standard BSD functions that are included in the sun libc
or you can download the portable versions.

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