Hi Joe,

Excellent.  Remember that you should also look at the super classes for methods.  UnixFileDirectory is the instance of “FileDirectory default” but it’s also a subclass of FileDirectory so the methods you can call include UnixFileDirectory and all the methods on the class hierarchy including the methods on FileDirectory.  Please see the method categories on FileDirectory that I mentioned.

The question I asked was a bit different.  When you ask for the #entries of the instance “FileDirectory default” what class is each file?

By the way, based on the question you asked there is a method on FileDirectory to determine if the file exists before you read it (it’s in the method categories I pointed out to you).  What is that method?

All the best,

Ron Teitelbaum   

From: beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:beginners-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Alotta
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 4:15 PM
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Subject: [Newbies] Re: FileDirectory

Hi Ron,

I get an instance of UnixFileDirectory.  And there are only 6 methods for UnixFileDirectory, none of them doing what I want.

Sincerely,

Joe.

> On May 25, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Ron Teitelbaum [via Smalltalk] <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> The hardest part of FileDirectory is understanding default.
>
> So start with: FileDirectory default.
>
> Note that default is on the class side.  Once you inspect that you are now
> on the instance side.  Have a look at the categories #enumeration, #'file
> status', and #'file operations', and #'file name utilities'  
>
> when you get a file from that instance you are no longer on FileDirectory.
> What class are the file entries?
>
> Let me know if that helps.
>
> All the best,
>
> Ron Teitelbaum
>
>
>
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> > Subject: [Newbies] FileDirectory
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I am looking for some documentation or snippets of code for using the
> > FileDirectory class.
> >
> > I want to check if a file exists before I try to read it.
> >
> > I also want to look at a list of files in the directory.
> >
> > I did search SBE and google but found nothing.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Joe.
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> >
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