Re: [open-cobol-list] Reading directory lists from GNU Cobol programmes

[Simon Sobisch]

Hi Dave and welcome to GnuCOBOL.

As Brian already pointed out there is the plan to add this feature (will
be supported with the "old" x'91', too).

See https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/feature-requests/105/

You're invited to do the necessary changes (or let someone do this for
you, either a friend, in-house, or paid) - I'm always willing to help
anyone that wants to provide patches. Just leave a note in the FR
mentioned above.

In the meanwhile you can only do a
        CALL "SYSTEM" USING "cd <dir> && ls <searchlist> > dirfile"
or
        CALL "SYSTEM" USING "cd <dir> && dir <searchlist> > dirfile"
depending on the system used (or both, doing the second only if the
return-code is not zero)

Simon

> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:11:16 -0000 (GMT)
> From: "Dave Stratford" <address@hidden>
> Subject: [open-cobol-list] Reading directory lists from GNU Cobol
>       programmes
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> Hi folks,
> 
> MF cobol offers the facility to read directory entries by use of the
> CALL x"91" using ... facility.
> 
> 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?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Dave
>