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Re: help with windows directory command from within idl [message #18561]

Thu, 13 January 2000 00:00

Nando Iavarone
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Registered: December 1998

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Peter Brooker wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I am running IDL on an NT. I use the CD command to
change directories
 from within IDL. Staying inside IDL, I now want to list which files
are
 in this remote directory.  The IDL command
IDL> SPAWN,'DIR'
Opens up a DOS window but then closes it immediatly.
How can I get IDL to keep the DOS window open so I can look at the
 files?
Is there a way other than SPAWN to list the files in the new directory?
thanks-Peter Brooker</blockquote>
You can simply use the "findfile" too.
fileNames = findfile()
fileNames will be a string array in which each element is a file name
in your directory
Bye.
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Nando Iavarone
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