Re: seeking javascript

Hi,

>>>>| JavaScript won't do file-system work, even reading directory contents.


Actually MS has ported the FSO (File System Object) to JS since its jscript
engine version 4. It instantiates as an ActiveX object.

At the cost of portability you could use JS on windows systems to access the
file system.

-Srini

----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Rundlett <greg(at)freephile.com>
To: eric williams <eric_alt(at)hotmail.com>; <hwg-languages(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: seeking javascript


| JavaScript won't do file-system work, even reading directory contents.
|
| You'll need to get a perl script or something with file-system access
(read,
| write, execute).
|
| hth,
| Greg
| founder www.freephile.com
|
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: eric williams <eric_alt(at)hotmail.com>
| To: <hwg-languages(at)hwg.org>
| Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 8:16 PM
| Subject: seeking javascript
|
|
| > HI
| > I've been looking for and not finding a script which will search the
| > (specified) directory for all files of a chosen type and list them or
send
| > them to another script for handling.
| > i.e., to display all images in the directory, or list all audio files,
| etc.
| > Can anyone help?
| > Also, how do you get the size of a file from the server?
| > thanks
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