opendir() and @dirlist()

[Bob Stockler]

Enrique Arredondo wrote (on Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 12:46:24PM -0800):

| The problem I'm having that I just discovered is that I have a huge 
| database of technical documents in which some are longer than 32 
| characters the filename due to the nature of the "document naming 
| standard", Is there a way of incrementing that 32 cap to let's say 50 ? It 
| looks like opendir() is the one that needs to grow as well as @dirlist().
| 
| Is that a big change ?

I'm afraid it is (probably BIG -vs- big).

I don't know what OS you're on, or what you plan to do with
the filenames once you get them, but on SCO UNIX I'd use
SYSTEM and 'ls' to write them to a temporary file, then I'd
use OPEN to open that temporaty file, followed by READLINE
to read the filenames.

Bob

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