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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ansi c and directories
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Date: 27 Nov 89 07:11:58 GMT
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In article <7108@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>The only operating systems I know of that wouldn't support "Open current
>directory", "Next file in current directory", and "Close current directory"
>are either obsolete (one person brought up CDC NOS) or are required to hide
>file names for security reasons.

Hey!  NOS *would* support these!  Since you have nothing *other* than
"current directory," and you certainly can have files, it kinda falls
through.  However, I'm not sure it would be worth it (memory limits and 
the like).

It's possible that opendir / readdir et al should have been included.  I'm
still fuzzy on the idea, however.

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