Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 11:13:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: stunajoh AT ACS DOT EKU DOT EDU
Subject: Re: file finding function?
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To: Guido Gonzato <guido AT ibogfs DOT df DOT unibo DOT it>
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On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Guido Gonzato wrote:

> Majisun wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a function that will find out if there is any file with a certain
> > extension in the current directory, and then return the filename?
> > 
> >         -Sthel Majisun
> 
> 
> yeah. It's the "file" utility, which can do *much* more than simply look
> for files by extension. Look in the v2gnu/ dir of your simtelnet mirror.
> 
Maybe this is too clumsy for what you want to do, but this would be very
handy if you had more than one file with an extension to find.  

system("dir /b c:\\dir\\*.ext > c:\\filelist.txt");

Then you could read this file back in (c:\filelist.txt).
Also note that you need \\ instad of \ or /, because you are submitting
this to dos.  Also, if that file doesn't exist, there is an error message
that pops up and I don't know how to supress it.
Also, this obviously will only work in Dos.  When opening the files, also
remember to convert the \'s to /'s when using the fstream::open.