[PD] external for reading files from directories?

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> if you are on linux, you can use the shell-external and send a [ls(-msg 
> to it. to be honest, i would appreciate a way (external) that works 
> crossplatform, too, rather than the [shell]-solution.

All it takes for crossplatform operation is the following line for MS-DOS 
users:

   ECHO DIR > C:\USR\BIN\LS.BAT

Or else here's the source code (in Ruby) for a portable ls you can use the 
following external (written in Ruby):

GridFlow::FObject.subclass("ls",1,1) {
   def _0_symbol(s) send_out 0,:list,*Dir[s.to_s].map{|x|x.intern} end
}

Which you can add in ~/.gridflow_startup to override the slightly less 
powerful [ls] external bundled with GridFlow. Note that the double-star 
wildcard recurses subdirectories.

Here's Carmen's GridFlow-for-Windows :

   http://whats-your.name/bin/pd-devel0392+gridflow.rar

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