[PD] [PD-announce] more objects from libc: stat - get file info

[chris clepper]

Is there a way to get a random file of a certain type (like .mov) from a
specific directory using your objects?

cgc

On 6/14/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
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> http://at.or.at/hans/pd/objects.html
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> Another libc port: stat. It lets you get all sorts of data from a
> file. Quite handy for a number of things, like testing what kind of
> file something is, or get the time of the last access, status change,
> or modification. Should work on all platforms.
>
> Also included is [file_type] object which is written in Pd and uses
> [stat].  It tells you what kind of file something is (file, folder,
> character, block, fifo, etc).
>
> Of course, it'll be in the next Pd-extended test release.
>
> .hc
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