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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How do you read an MS-DOS directory?
Message-ID: <619@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 16-May-87 02:21:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.619
Posted: Sat May 16 02:21:58 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 17-May-87 01:03:47 EDT
References: <63@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <63@lzaz.ATT.COM> psc@lzaz.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:
>Maybe I'm missing the point, but I can't see any way to read a
>directory (or subdirectory) using the DOS functions. 

The MS-DOS calls FindFirst and FindNext accept an attribute byte and
a filename pattern and return the names of all matching files.  If
the attribute byte is correctly supplied the names will include
directories too.

One you have the name of a directory, you can then append "*.*" to
its name and use FindFirst and FindNext again recursively.

These calls will also return some additional information such as
file size and date.
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