> To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :
> > I've got the following problem. I want to write the stuff of a
> > directory into a Multibrowser. Is it possible to use xforms to read
> > out a directory an put the result in a browser ? ...
> You can read the contents of a directory using opendir(3), readdir(3),
> etc., then use stat(2) or lstat(2) to get the information on each file
> in the directory. You can then sort the directory data however you
> wish with qsort(2) or your own favorite sort routine.
> Refer to the manual pages for more detail.
You can also use fl_get_dirlist. The advantage is that it is file-system
independent and the list is sorted. This is part of the file selector
goodie (section 6.4 in the manual).
Dick
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