*FREE* CODE!

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 02-10-93 (22:31)             Number: 277
From: SCOTT DRYSDALE               Refer#: NONE
  To: ALL                           Recvd: NO  
Subj: *FREE* CODE!                   Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
HI.

  Zack Jones said he wanted some code a boot'n through this
echo so here's something you might (or might not) want to
clip...  I made this programme (took only a half hour or
so) when noticing that QB's Mkdir command only supported
one extra directory at a time, and I wanted to add a chain
of directorys.... anyways here it goes.

===\ clip here /===

DECLARE SUB md (drive$, directory$)

SUB md (drive$, directory$)
IF drive$ = "" THEN drive$ = "C:"

        a = INSTR(1, directory$, "\")
        b = INSTR(a + 1, directory$, "\") - (a + 1)
        WHILE INSTR(a + 1, directory$, "\") <> 0
                direct$ = MID$(directory$, a + 1, b)
                SHELL "MD " + drive$ + LEFT$(directory$, a) + direct$
                a = INSTR(a + 1, directory$, "\")
                b = INSTR(a + 1, directory$, "\") - (a + 1)

        WEND
        direct$ = MID$(directory$, a + 1, LEN(directory$) - a)
        SHELL "MD " + drive$ + LEFT$(directory$, a) + direct$

END SUB

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An example of usage might be "call md ("C:",
"\BACKUP\EXTRA\SPARE\GAME")" when only "C:\backup" exists...

Well?   It's short but sweet.... personnally I use the same
thing but I've added MKDIR instead of "SHELL" but in order
to do so you must have some worthy error handling... that
there works just fine.  Have a blast.


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