filepro....opendir & nextdir

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Only Enrique Arredondo would say something like:
> Hi y'all,
> 
> Do you know why does nextdir() doesn't show me the filename the way it is?
> 
> Here's a listing of my folder:
> 
> -rw-rw-rw-   1 root     sys        19438 Nov  3 10:18 
> tnaile-ford256-15-a22-1.jpg
> 
> and when I display the contents of nextdir() is shows:
> 
> tnaile-ford256-15-a22-1          jpg                19,438 11/03/2005 
> 01:18:14p
> tnaile-ford256-15-a22-1.jpg
> 
> Is there a way to tell nextdir() to show just the name ?

When I looked at it, it stores a string with all the into an array, and you
could access the name alone from that array via offset within the element.

The problem is, at least when I looked at it, there was a finite (and far
too short) fixed-width cast on the filename fields in the array.  I believe
it was extended -some-, but it did not match anything -close- to MAXPATHLEN
that most systems would have.

Looking at Laura's help files on the system I'm currently logged into, both
copies of the filename are limited to 32 characters.  I believe the last
copy was extended some, but I could be wrong.  John may remember talking to
Ken about it directly, and Ken almost certainly knows.  :)

mark->
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