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Re: [open-cobol-list] Reading directory lists from GNU Cobol programmes
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Brian Tiffin |
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Re: [open-cobol-list] Reading directory lists from GNU Cobol programmes |
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Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:53:59 -0500 |
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Dave Stratford wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> MF cobol offers the facility to read directory entries by use of the
> CALL x"91" using ... facility.
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> This seems to only work on windows (though I may have misunderstood what I
> was told), however GNU Cobol doesn't support it at all. Does anyone know a
> GNU Cobol, windows or linux, method of doing this?
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> Many thanks,
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> Dave
>
There is a sample using readdir for Gnu/Linux at
http://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/discussion/help/thread/652aeb58/
But, that example is pretty hacky. Plan is to eventually add
C$LIST-DIRECTORY, but that is not the case today.
Cheers,
Brian