Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!csource!david
From: david@csource.oz.au (david nugent)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Reading MS-DOS directory in C, how to
Message-ID: <45.25D9745B@csource.oz.au>
Date: 15 Feb 90 05:12:21 GMT
Organization: Unique Computing Pty Limited (Vic)
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 > Message-ID: <1990Feb14.031640.28944@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
 >
 > I would like to read the current directory in a C program, but either
 > the books I have been reading (the Turbo C reference and my library of
 > beginner's books on the language) don't mention it, or I don't know
 > where in the index to look.  I assume there's some call that returns
 > an array of pointers to strings, but I really can't figure it out.


Hmm, no.

Turbo C should include a findfirst() and findnext() functions, which allow 
you to pass both a file "specification" and attributes. It's usually done 
something like this (node that the given path can include wildcards):


 .
 .
 #include <dos.h>
 #include <dir.h>
 .
 .
 .
 {
 int j;
 struct ffblk ff;       /* contains directory data */

 j = findfirst ("*.*", &ff, FA_RDONLY|FA_HIDDEN|FA_SYSTEM|FA_DIREC);
 while (j)
      {
      /* store information or do whatever */
      j = findfirst (&ff);
      }
 .
 .


david

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