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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 21:35:39 GMT
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Tom St Denis wrote:
> 
> "Abacuc" <f DOT onorati AT tiscalinet DOT it> wrote in message
> news:980qkc$lj0$1 AT pegasus DOT tiscalinet DOT it...
> > How can i distinguish a file or a directory? And how can I know the
> > extensions of the files (exe, com, jpg, etc.)?
> 
> Well you can "fopen" a file not a directory... hmm...
> 
> There is no ISO-C method for what you are asking.  If you are making DJGPP
> specific requests research the "findfirst/findnext" functions.

    Another DJGPP-specific (POSIX-specific, actually) method
would be to use the stat() or fstat() function and examine the
st_mode element of the struct they fill in.  The <sys/stat.h>
header defines some helpful macros for doing this.

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman AT acm DOT org