Question about files

bongomeno · Post by **bongomeno** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 12:22 am

other than posts about spam, this place seems like a ghost town lately!

Later this week Ill try to post some updates on my GUI Dream16.

annnyyywaaay...

Is there any way that I can read the contents of a directory in Qbasic? Lets say that I wanted to return file names and/or info from C:\, like DIR in ms-dos. Can I do that in Qbasic by itself or do I need to use assembly?

Thanks.

Post by **burger2227** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:26 am

Pipe the information to a file and read that.

CHDIR to a folder path or use the path in a SHELL:

SHELL "DIR *.BAS /B > Folder.dat" ' /B returns nothing else but a list of filenames.

Ted

moneo · Post by **moneo** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 6:43 pm

burger2227 wrote:Pipe the information to a file and read that.

CHDIR to a folder path or use the path in a SHELL:

SHELL "DIR *.BAS /B > Folder.dat" ' /B returns nothing else but a list of filenames.

Ted

I know what you mean, but instead of saying "pipe", you should say "redirect."

Regards.... Moneo

bongomeno · Post by **bongomeno** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 11:03 am

Thanks for the reply, I will try this asap