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From: "Dan Gold" <TedMat AT CoastNet DOT com>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: getting all filename in sub-directory
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 21:41:45 -0800
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Is "rt" read text? should "r" do the same thing? and also is that > thingy
reading the directory to a file? and can you normally open a directory as a
file? am I way off???

from Dan Gold

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> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
> To: Clemens Valens <c DOT valens AT mindless DOT com>
> Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: getting all filename in sub-directory
> Date: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 2:31 AM
> 
> 
> On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Clemens Valens wrote:
> 
> > About your system() command, you could do it as
> > 
> > char show_files[] = "dir *.exe /s > exe_files.txt";
> > system(show_files);
> 
> Or, even better:
> 
> 	FILE *fp = popen ("dir *.exe /s", "rt");
> 	fread (fp, ...);