Re: Basic routine for directory listing

[Maarten ter Huurne]

At 11:58 PM 7/26/99 +0200, you wrote:

>Anyone has a simple but good BASIC "routine" to read the contents of a
>directory and put it into variables.... I need this to do a simple
>"launcher" application. It shows the contents of a directory filtered by
>'executables', but I need this routine... anyone can help? thanx!

You can read the directory (sector 7 and beyond for 720K floppy) using
DSKI$ and get the filenames from there.

There is some system variable that holds the address of the DSKI$ buffer.
But I forgot which one...

Bye,
                Maarten


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