Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.franciliens.net!fdn.fr!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!easy.in-chemnitz.de!news2.arglkargh.de!diablo1.news.osn.de!news.osn.de!diablo2.news.osn.de!217.188.199.168.MISMATCH!takemy.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: Bernd Paysan Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: glob-like word needed (Gforth under Linux) Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 15:15:18 +0200 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <2cb56dd7-4e61-49e4-828d-1f1f69bd07ac@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p4ffb9415.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: online.de 1397308519 6086 79.251.148.21 (12 Apr 2014 13:15:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 13:15:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/4.11.5 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:29567 Julian Fondren wrote: > FILE-STATUS *should* be useful -- the standard allows it to be useful, > without > specifying any actual utility -- but it isn't. It looks like you'll need > to use gforth's C interface to work with stat() , to get more information > about files than their name and size. In the current snapshot, there's unix/filestat.fs, which provides that interface. -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" http://bernd-paysan.de/