Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:30:49 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: bergstro@eng.utah.edu Subject: Re: CYGWIN file structure Message-ID: <20010424203049.A22034@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, bergstro@eng.utah.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: ; from bergstro@eng.utah.edu on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:40:02PM -0600 On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:40:02PM -0600, James Bergstrom wrote: >We are writing a driver in CYGWIN to read an image file from a directory >on the hard disk. The files are placed there every few seconds by a >webcam, and they are named "image1.tif", "image2.tif", etc. We know the >directory they are in, and we know that they are named "image[num].tif", >but we are having trouble finding utilities to examine filenames in >cygwin. > >Can you help (our senior project is due thursday morning) If I am understanding what you are asking for, I think you need to investigate opendir and readdir. These are UNIX functions. You can find them documented here: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/index.html The alternative is to use Windows native functions like FindFirstFile and FindNextFile. They would be documented here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple