How would one go about creating a table of file names in a given directory? I'm sure someone has done this before somehow.
Here's my technique for a Win2k system with long filenames:
SET VAR vdir TEXT = c:\rbti\rbwin65
OUTPUT files.lst
DIR &vdir
OUTPUT SCREEN
CREATE TABLE fnames (fname TEXT (8),fext TEXT (3),fsize INTEGER, +
fdate TEXT (8),ftime TEXT (6),longfn TEXT (70) )
LOAD fnames FROM files.lst
In the process of loading the data R:Base will throw away the records that are not file entries, leaving you with a list of filenames. You could, of course, add a computed column to give you the 8.3 format combined. Note that these filenames will not include the full path.
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