LS Function
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No problem, Joe. I plan to upload it…along with the other source as soon
as I get word on how to proceed. It uses the wildexp function that I wrote
(and plan to also upload). The current dir was handled by obtaining the
current task pointer by calling "FindTask" with a NULL pointer. The current
task pointer points at a process structure which contains a variable called
"CurrentDir". This is a lock for the current directory and can be used in an
"Examine" call. However, to simplify things, I do a "DupLock" on it. In one
program I have also called "ParentDir" with it until I get a NULL
return…and that gives me the complete path to the current directory.
LS isn't quite the same as Unix LS. For one thing it doesn't yet support all
of the options, and for another it doesn't sort the directory. It was very
much a quick&dirty hack because I dislike the AmigaDos wildcard setup. I
plan to do the rest of the options later…and perhaps make it sort although
thats kind of a gimme. Rick Schaeffer