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From: claudius@zeus.calpoly.edu (King_Claudius)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Directory Routines in Perl under Xenix386
Keywords: opendir perl ldir
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.185319.152408@zeus.calpoly.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 18:53:19 GMT
References: <118@embassy.nsi.com>
Organization: California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo
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lance@embassy.nsi.com (Lance N. Antrim) writes:
>The problem is in the directory routines.  I discovered it when I tried
>to use the opendir, readdir and closedir routines in the example in the
>Camel book using 'complete.pl.  I found I got a list of no files for the
>complete routine to work on.  On further examination I found that I was
>getting information from the reading of the directory, but not a list of
>separated file names.  

Wow...I guess I'm not alone...I've compiled it for our AIX sites: a mondo-IBM
big blue 3090 and a bunch of 386 machines.

Basically I get no output from readdir, but no errors from opendir.  I've
written C code that does the same basic thing and our functions work fine from
the C side of the world.

[I'm working on following {ick!} the code in doio.c, where it all happens]

>In skimming the Xenix manuals it apears that I need to add 'ldir' to my
>library list and possibly make some changes in the appropriate Perl
>code.  Before going further I wanted to see if anyone else has compiled
>Perl 4.003 under Xenix386 and tested the directory routines.  If so, do
>they work as they are supposed to?  If not, has anyone made the changes
>necessary to get them working?  

Hmm...can't help you with Xenix, but I don't think it's Xenix's fault.
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