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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: How are people developing?
Message-ID: <1990Jul17.133203.1035@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 17 Jul 90 13:32:03 GMT
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Organization: The Whitewater Group, Evanston, IL
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In article <1990Jul15.195557.16913@portia.Stanford.EDU> gyugyi@portia.Stanford.EDU (Paul Gyugyi) writes:
>I've written a limited version of a DOS shell in Actor, mianly using the Actor
>exec(<A String>) command, so that I can have my cd, ren, del, copy, md, rd, 
>etc. commands.  One trouble I'm having is how to read a directory of files in
>Actor.  Currently, I've creating a windows file-listbox (but not displaying it)
>and asking it for the list of filenames to print.  It's a wretched kludge,
>and if anyone has any suggestions...

Getting a directory listing is really somewhat simple.  Basically, since we
support interrupt 21 (the DOS interrupt) you can use this to get a directory
listing.  As a matter of fact, on our BBS I think you'll find a file that will
be very helpful in creating your program.  I know it has the name "dir" in
it someplace, but I don't remember the exact name of the file.  I'll track
it down and post the code to find a directory list.

-- 
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Patrick Deupree ->	patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us