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Re: Greg: "win_dir()" problems... 12/32/2003 :-)

• Posted by Greg Haberek <ghaberek at gmail.com> Dec 17, 2005
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> Oh yeah, one little thing is that if the path is a directory and it
> does not contain a trailing "\\" slash, win_dir() returns only
> one record or something, so it's not exactly the same as what Eu's
> dir command returns.  Adding the slash at the end gets the whole
> dir though.  This isnt too much of a problem, but you cant simply
> replace d=dir() with d=win_dir() in your program and expect it to
> work exactly the same because it wont.  Perhaps you can find a way
> to fix this also, which would be nice :)
> In the mean time, im using it with the above changes and using a
> trailing slash char and it's working the same as when i was reading
> the file written first with system dir so im happy with it.
> Now i can eliminate the system call as well as the file read which will
> speed things up a little.  It's a cleaner program now too in that it
> doesnt have to write a temporary file anywhere.

I thought I made a note of that in the docs. Check 'em again. I've
been thinking of adding a check to see if someone was getting the
entry of a directory, and if so, enter it and get the files.

I'll make the recommended changes and post them this weekend.

~Greg