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From: psfales@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Peter Fales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How do you read an MS-DOS directory?
Message-ID: <1751@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: Tue, 19-May-87 10:56:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 19 10:56:47 1987
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In article <62@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 obvious thing
> is to just open "FOO" (or "FOO."), but I got an "Access denied" error
> code.

The standard trick is use the DOS functions "find first" and "find next"
to find all files which match "dir/subdir1/subdir2/*.*" or whatever.

It is likely that your compiler library has functions to simplify this
procedure.  In my compiler they are called opendir() and readdir(), I
believe the names are stolen from similar functions under BSD UNIX.

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