From: ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Portable way to examine a directory?
Date: 12 Jul 1998 13:45:34 GMT
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Laurence Withers (lwithers AT lwithers DOT demon DOT co DOT uk) wrote:
: I'm working on a project which needs to examine a directory.
: Specifically, I have the directory name and I want to search for all
: files ending *.olf, and I also want to search for all subdirectories.
: 
: Using C++, I can do this in DOS and with Allegro (foreachfile() or
: whatever it is), but neither method is portable. I would like to port
: the project to many platforms.
: 
: Is there any standard way of doing this that DJGPP supports, or am I
: better off leaving this piece of code to be implementation specific?

Look at opendir() and friends. I think they are POSIX compliant.


Lisa Gerrard, The Mirror Pool,

							MartinS