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Re: how find if/where a file is

• Posted by Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET> Sep 07, 2000
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<chagrin>

No wonder I couldn't find it when I looked for dir_walk!!

Dan
<slapping forehead>


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray & Debbie Smith" <smithr at IX.NET.AU>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: how find if/where a file is


> Hi Dan,
>
> There is a command called "walk_dir" which you can check up on in
> library.doc.
> It has an option to recursively walk through all files/directories given a
> starting directory.
>
> Looks like it's what your after,
>
> Ray Smith
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET>
> To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 10:46 PM
> Subject: how find if/where a file is
>
>
> > Can anyone suggest how I might go about programmatically finding if a
file
> > is present and if so where it is?  It should (almost certainly) be under
> > Euphoria, and I have an example which showed me:
> >
> > -- FIND WHERE EUPHORIA STUFF IS ON DRIVE:
> > object EuDir    -- EUDIR environment variable
> > EuDir = getenv("EUDIR")
> >
> > but I don't know how to then search for all the subdirectories for the
> file;
> > I thought I had seen something that might relate, more than one
reference
> to
> > a "dirwalk" here, but I searched the archives and manuals & couldn't
find
> > it.
> >
> > Dan Moyer