From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Searching the path.
Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:26:18 -0400
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Trent Gamblin wrote:
> 
> Can anyone tell me how I can search the path for a file if it isn't in the
> current directory? Also, I know how to get a list of files in a directory
> but how can I distinguish between regular files and directories?

The library function access() can tell you what flags a given file has,
and so can the ff_attrib field of 'struct ffblk' used by
findfirst()/findnext().

For path searching, look at the searchpath() function declared in
<dir.h>.  It mimics the behavior of the Borland function of that name. 
If you want to convert the code for your own use, it's in
src/libc/dos/dir/srchpath.c (you need djlsr201.zip for the library
sources).

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