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From: philip@cel.cummins.com (Philip D. Pokorny)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: name_$read_dir_lc on 10.3
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Date: 14 Jun 91 19:32:59 GMT
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Mark Cutshaw writes:
     Could someone please look at the above code to try to find out
     what is wrong.  This is exactly what the 'name.ins.ftn' file
     says to do, but for some reason it gets all blanks for the file
     names.  From the debugger, I know that DIRNAM, DIRLEN, and MAX
     are all correct and I also know that it returns 42 in MAXR, so
     it's doing something at least 42 times (which is about 
     the number of files in the directory).
   
     By the way, why is the documentation for the NAME_$READ_DIR_LC
     subroutine different in the 'name.ins.ftn' file from that in
     the system call reference manual?  Which one is correct?
     Neither?  :-)

If you check out the name_$extract_data_lc call it mentions that it
is explicitly for FORTRAN programs that are using name_$read_dir_lc

You might look at /sys/help/calls/name_$intro and
/sys/help/calls/name_$extract_data_lc or
/sys/help/calls/name_$read_dir_lc.   All of which you can get from the
DM by using <Help>calls/name_$...  All of the system call man pages
are there in the calls directory if your system administrator installed
them...  They are REAL handy...

:)