I'm working on an application I want to compile on many
different platforms.  Somewhere along the line, I need to
obtain a list of all files in a directory.  In OS/2, DOS,
WinNT, etc... the way to do this is with DosFindFirst and
DosFindNext.  However, these are not part of the ANSI
standard, so I want to know, what should I use?  Are these
actually supported on everything, or is there another way
to do this?
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  I'm not a pro but I do believe this is an OS specific problem
that can't be solved by any current ANSI standard function.

regards,
H.Cross

: I'm working on an application I want to compile on many
: different platforms.  Somewhere along the line, I need to
: obtain a list of all files in a directory.  In OS/2, DOS,
: WinNT, etc... the way to do this is with DosFindFirst and
: DosFindNext.  However, these are not part of the ANSI
: standard, so I want to know, what should I use?  Are these
: actually supported on everything, or is there another way
: to do this?
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Routines related to files and directories (iostreams or the C
stream functions excluded) are not usually portable across platforms.  If
it were me, I'd use the POSIX extensions for directory functions where
available.  I'd use #ifdefs to add code for platforms that aren't POSIX
compliant.

Laura Michaels

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