WinFile versus FilesAndDirs

In order to make the move from WinFiles to FilesAndDirs as smooth as possible this page compares the two classes.

(Almost) unchanged functions

WinFile

FilesAndDirs

Remarks

Cd

Cd

CheckPath

CheckPath

CopyToWithRC

CopyTo

Delete

DeleteFile

Dir, DirTree, DirX

Dir

Syntax change

DoesExist

Exists

DoesExistDir

IsDir

DoesExistFile

IsFile

ExpandPath

Normalize

Check syntax; see also EnforceBackSlash

GetTempFileName

GetTempFilename

Notice change in spelling

GetTempPath

GetTempPath

ListDirsOnly

ListDirs

ListFilesOnly

ListFiles

MkDir

MkDir

MoveToWithRC

MoveTo

PWD

PWD

PolishCurrentDir

PolishCurrentDir

RmDir

RmDir

"Recursive" is now the default

Functions added to FilesAndDirs

Function name

Remarks

GetNewLineCharsFor

Operating system dependent

IsSymbolicLink

Completes IsDir and IsFile

CopyTree

Copy directory with all its contents

MoveTree

Move directory with all its contents

Removed functions

WinFile

Remarks

CopyTo

Signalled errors.

CreateDirParms

CreateDirXParms

CreateListFilesOnlyParms

DateOf

DirTree

ExpandEnv

Never belonged to WinFile

GetAllDrives

Never belonged to WinFile

GetDriveAndType

Never belonged to WinFile

HasSubDirs

IsDirEmpty

IsFilenameOkay

IsFoldernameOkay

IsValidWin32Filename

ListDirXIndices

ListFileAttributes

MoveTo

Signalled errors

ReadAnsiFile

ReadBytesAs8BitSignedIntegersFromFile

See ⎕NGET

WriteAnsiFile

See ⎕NPUT

YoungerThan

WinFileVersusFilesAndDirs (last edited 2016-09-05 06:16:27 by KaiJaeger)