bleys@tronsbox.UUCP (bleys) (11/09/89)
The C Notes for the C Group column in Amazing Computing has been interesting for me, a novice C programmer. The only problem is that the author, Stephen Kemp, is using a function specific to manx, namely scdir(). You pass it a string, including wildcards, and it does a directory search and returns the file pointer of the first file that fits the pattern. I've been through the Lattice documentation, and I haven't found anything that matches this. I'd appreciate either the name of the function, or a work-around, cause this is driving me crazy! Bill
mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) (11/11/89)
In article <[2558d2f7:330]comp.sys.amiga.tech@tronsbox.UUCP> bleys@tronsbox.UUCP (bleys) writes:
<Kemp, is using a function specific to manx, namely scdir(). You pass it a
<string, including wildcards, and it does a directory search and returns the
<file pointer of the first file that fits the pattern.
You want getfnl (in 5, I don't think it was in 4). However, it's
diffent enough from your description of scdir that you'll probably
want to write scdir based on it, rather than modifing code using scdir
to use getfnl. Fortunately, there's an example in the manual that
should do exactly what you want with minor mods.
<mike
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