Date:         Tue, 19 Aug 1997 14:15:16 PDT
Reply-To:     Melvin Klassen <KLASSEN@UVVM.UVIC.CA>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Melvin Klassen <KLASSEN@UVVM.UVIC.CA>
Subject:      Re: PC Directory Capturing

rnicola <rnicola@PRODIGY.NET> writes:
>Does anyone have a Method or line of code for capturing information from a
>selected PC directory. Basically, we wish to list all of the *.SAS modules
>from a particular directory.
>
>We are familiar with specifications for building such a list as specified in
>SAS help and on the NET. This includes building fairly complex lists and
>calling External DLL's using MODULE. Before proceeding with this, however,
>we wanted to see if anyone has any existing code.
 
How about a "low-tech" solution ...
 
     ERASE                 \TEMP\RNICOLA.TMP
     DIR \some\dir\*.SAS > \TEMP\RNICOLA.TMP
 
and write a SAS 'DATA' step to read the file '\TEMP\RNICOLA.TMP' ?