Win32 System Services: The Heart of Windows® 98 and Windows® 2000

4.2. Creating and Deleting

Typically a user creates a directory either with the File Manager or with the mkdir command. There are many reasons that you may do the same thing inside of an application. For example, if you are writing an application that installs another application or a set of data files, you will need to create directories to hold the files that you are installing.

Listing 4.1 uses the CreateDirectory function to create a new directory.

Code Listing 4.1. Creating a new directory (Page of )

// dircreat.cpp #include <windows.h> #include <iostream.h> void main() { char s[MAX_PATH]; BOOL success; // get name of directory cout << "Enter path/name of new directory: "; cin >> s; success = CreateDirectory(s, 0); if (!success) cout ...