Displays information about files.

DISPLAY FILES [ON Drive] [LIKE FileSkeleton] 
   [TO PRINTER [PROMPT] | TO FILE FileName [ADDITIVE]]

Parameters

ON Drive

Specifies the drive or volume on which the files reside.

LIKE FileSkeleton

Specifies a condition whereby Visual FoxPro displays information only about files that match the skeleton pattern FileSkeleton. The skeleton pattern can contain wildcards such as ? and *.

TO PRINTER [PROMPT]

Directs output from DISPLAY FILES to a printer.

In Visual FoxPro, you can include the optional PROMPT clause to display a dialog box before printing starts. In this dialog box, you can adjust printer settings, including the number of copies and page numbers to print. The printer settings that you can adjust depend on the currently installed printer driver. Place the PROMPT keyword immediately after TO PRINTER.

TO FILE FileName

Directs output from DISPLAY FILES to the file specified with FileName. If the file already exists and SET SAFETY is ON, you are asked if you want to overwrite the file.

ADDITIVE

Appends to the end of the named file. If you omit ADDITIVE, then the file is overwritten with the value of the expression.

Remarks

Example

The following example displays the names of the databases in the ...\Samples\Data directory.

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CLOSE DATABASES OPEN DATABASE (HOME(2) + 'Data\testdata') CLEAR DISPLAY FILES LIKE *.DBC

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