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Subject: Re: Portable way to examine a directory?
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On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Laurence Withers wrote:

> --- Original message ---
> Subject:  Portable way to examine a directory?
> Time:     Sun, 12 Jul 1998, 19:40:47
> Author:   Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
> 
> >       2) Use library functions `opendir' and `readdir' to read all the 
> >file names in a directory, then pass them to `fnmatch' to see whether the 
> >file name matches the wildcard.  These functions are also Posix, but 
> >`opendir' and `readdir' are usually available on DOS compilers also. 
> 
> OK, so I'm now using opendir() and readdir() successfully, as well as
> fnmatch(). But is fnmatch() going to be included in DOS and Linux
> compilers?
> 
> Thanks for your help. Bye for now,

Take a look at dosdir. A portable directory interface.
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Erwin Waterlander