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  2. From: rlm7638@tamsun.tamu.edu (Jack McKinney)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
  4. Subject: scanning directory
  5. Date: 28 Jan 1993 13:22:33 -0600
  6. Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
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  12.     It is fairly easy from a program to determine if a file exists, but
  13. suppose I wanted to determine if a given directory is empty or not? What
  14. would be the easiest way to do this from C?
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  17. | You can tell how far we have to go, when    | Jack McKinney           |
  18. | FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers.  | jmckinney@tamu.edu      |
  19. |         -- Steven Feiner              |                         |
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