Re: Directory listings and path names

[Brian Rogoff <bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net>]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, M. A. Alves wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Andreas Valdusson wrote:
> > If I have the name of a directory, and want ADA to get the names of
> > all sub-directories of this one, how do I do? How do I get the
> > contents of a specific directory (ie. the names for all subdirectories
> > and files) and how do I know which of these that are sub-directories
> > an which are files?
>
> These are services of the Operating System, not of Ada (the programming
> language),

Says you! I could argue the same about tasking.

IMO, it would be a good thing if there were some sort of standard
directory package. I know, someone will argue that file systems are
different. Oh yeah? So are the multitasking capabilities of various OSes.

> I bet you can find a
> couple of packages implementing such bindings freely available on the
> Internet. If you are using GNAT, you already have it: GNAT.OS_Lib :-)

True, but Ada should provide the support out of the box.

This is one of the first things I need when I start with any programming
language.

-- Brian