Just wondering if anyone has come a 1

[ted95242]

Just wondering if anyone has come across this one before. I just got a new computer and went from Windows 98 to XP. In one program I issue the following cobol statement:

01 wa-work-area.
05 wa-dos-command pic x(30) value
"dir /b *.src-arc > dirlist.txt"

call "system" using wa-dos-command.

Using Windows 98 I got the following in dirlist which is what I want:

prg000.src-arc
prg001.src-arc
prg002.src-arc
etc.

Using XP I got the following which causes me a problem:

prg000~1.src-arc
prg001~1.src-arc
prg002~2.src-arc
etc.

Anybody have any idea how I can get the same type of list that I got with Win98? Is there perhaps another switch I could use with the "dir" command?

Thanks,

Ted

 

[k5tm]

Since your file names do not conform to the 8.3 naming format, XP is showing you the short name generated. I don't quite understand why you are seeing an extension of .src-arc on the generated short name...

You can see all of the switches available by doing a DIR /? command. Perhaps the /X will be helpful.

At the worst case, you might need to do a regular DIR (without the very useful /B) and get the long file names out of the output.
Tom Morrison

 

[3gm]

The latest AcuCOBOL has built in directory processing via the C$LIST_DIRECTORY call. (I don't have my documentation handy, but it's something like that. I believe it appeared in 5.2.) That is a platform independent way of getting a directory list.

Glenn

 

[ted95242]

Tom,

That solved the problem. I guess reading the manual every now and then does help.

Thanks Tom.


Ted