Shucks everybody...
I think that its great that the hornet's nest that I stirred up might mean that a new unit of container classes gets written. I didn't think that my seemingly simple problem would create such a cascade of interest. Lists are catalysts for invention!
My trouble remains that I seem unable to devise or use canned routines to get the names of all the files on my drive. Just writing them out to con: in a console application would be acceptable to me to get me started. TurboPower's technique in their SysTools seemed simple enough but I seem to have created a monster.
Does somebody have something in source that they'd share with this poor guy, please?
Stu Cox
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From:
On Behalf Of Jason P
Sage
Sent: Sat, February 3, 2007 5:13 PM
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Subject: [fpc-pascal] Question on how to avoid memory trouble
>The error is not from a lack of stack space, either. The error is
>EOutOfMemory that indicates a less easily solved problem.
>Can anyone recommend a method to search a whole drive, of arbitrary
>size, without running out of memory.
>Stu Cox
This is exactly the kind of thing my string class works great with.
It's a dynamic double linked list - and the way its set up - there are
three versions - the simple tracks just pointers, the next has name,
value and Description ansistrings and I make pretty huge lists with it,
and it has Append, insert, findfirst, findnext, etc. I have an
unofficial release on www.jegas.org and you need to use the compile
switch that allows += construct.
Fpc -Sc yourprogram.pas
Worth a shot.
