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From: cmi@dartvax.UUCP (Theo Pozzy/R. Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Obtaining a list of files from a wildcard
Message-ID: <6472@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 10:09:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: dartvax.6472
Posted: Mon Jun 15 10:09:58 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jun-87 06:01:18 EDT
Reply-To: cmi@dartvax.UUCP (Theo Pozzy/R. Green)
Organization: Corporate Microsystems, Inc.
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This request is related to the discussion going on about obtaining
the full pathname of a file on the Mac.  What I've been trying to
figure out how to do, is how to get a list of files matching a
wildcard file name.  I can do the expression matching, but I have
yet to figure out a simple way to read the directory, getting
each file name returned to me.  Is there a way to do this?  Most
other operating systems have simple primitives to do this.  It
seems to me this is a very normal thing to want to do.  Even
on the Mac, an application might want to find all files with
it as a creator, without having to put up any dialog boxes for
the user.

If anyone has any information, or better yet, code to do this,
please respond to me via e-mail.  Thank you.


Theo Pozzy, Corporate Microsystems, Inc.
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