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Subject: Re: Directory contents
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 19:26:28 +0100
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HIToC wrote:
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> I want to write a function that can read the contents of a specified directory
> in order to find a certain type of file or to copy a directory-tree or
> something else.
> Neverthless I need of some system functions that find the files that are
> contained in that directory (like FINDFIRST and FINDNEXT under ms-dos).

opendir( ) and readdir( ) might be what you are looking for?