Using opendir() with a filePro file name

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Wed Apr 5 20:20:36 PDT 2006


At Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:20:30PM -0500 or thereabouts, 
suspect Mike Schwartz (PC Support & Services, Appleton, WI) was observed uttering:
> command.  Then, if I'm reading my filePro docs correctly, I should be
> able to do something like:
> 
> opendir ("PRC_MASK",finam(lc))
> 
> where lc is a counter that begins at "3", so that I skip "." and "..".

What makes you think . and .. are necessarily going to be entries 1 and 2?

I've personally never known it not to be the case, but that's an assumption
I would personally not make in the interests of not being surprised at a
later date.

mark->


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