From: Laurence Withers <lwithers AT lwithers DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Portable way to examine a directory?
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 12:45:59 +0100
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--- Original message ---
Subject:  Portable way to examine a directory?
Time:     Sun, 12 Jul 1998, 19:40:47
Author:   Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

>       2) Use library functions `opendir' and `readdir' to read all the 
>file names in a directory, then pass them to `fnmatch' to see whether the 
>file name matches the wildcard.  These functions are also Posix, but 
>`opendir' and `readdir' are usually available on DOS compilers also. 

OK, so I'm now using opendir() and readdir() successfully, as well as
fnmatch(). But is fnmatch() going to be included in DOS and Linux
compilers?

Thanks for your help. Bye for now,
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