From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: getting the contents of a disk drive
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 23:07:20 -0500
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Tim Bruning wrote:
> 
> I want my program to read the drive letter , directory , and files on a
> disk
>  and then display the current drive and directory (like windows' open
> and save boxes)
> anyone know of a way to do this ?

Most C compilers include a complete set of functions for reading
directories and file structures.  Look up the following to see what will
work best for you:

getmntent()
opendir()/readdir()/closedir()
access()
stat()
findfirst()/findnext()
__file_tree_walk()
getcwd()/getwd()

In fact, just about all of these and more can be found in "info libc
'functional categories' 'file system functions'".

hth

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