Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tropez!dlucy
From: dlucy@tropez.UUCP (Doug Lucy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Reading MS-DOS directory in C, how to
Summary: CXL wpickfile & wpickstr
Keywords: C, MS-DOS, system calls
Message-ID: <131@tropez.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 90 14:26:23 GMT
References: <1990Feb14.031640.28944@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Organization: DC Pro, Falls Church, VA
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In article <1990Feb14.031640.28944@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, dkazdan@cwsys2.cwru.edu (David Kazdan) writes:
> 
> would like to read the current directory in a C program....
> some call that returns an array of pointers to strings
> 

The CXL (C eXtended Library) by Mike Smedley (it's shareware) is a rather
full-featured windowing, input and graphics lib. It has two functions you
may be interested in (not sure what your application is): wpickstr and
wpickfile. These functions put up a user-defined window complete with
highlight bar and user-defined/or-not movement that lets the user pick
a string from an array *OR* pick a filename from the disk structure
(user can follow tree up or down). It comes in Microsoft, Zortech (?) 
and Borland flavors. Lots of docs, too. (Does this sound like an ad,
or what?)

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