ansi c and directories

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1289 at quintus.UUCP> jbeard at quintus.UUCP () writes:
> >> 	I'm sure the concept of a file is more inherit to operating
> >> systems than is the concept of a directory.

> >In any system for which files have names, there is at least one directory.

> Sorry Peter, IBM MVS and  DOS/VSE both have file names without resorting to
> a directory file structure.

They have a directory. It may be flat, but it's a directory. A directory
is just a thing you can ask for a list of names. Sometimes it's called
a catalog, or a table of contents, or a volume, or whatever. It's still
a directory.

> We have a name clash on 'DIRECTORY'.

I guess. What do you call the thing you get when you type "dir" in CP/M?
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