Re: st: saving all file names in directory/folder

["Kyle K. Hood" <kyle.hood@yale.edu>]

Raphael Fraser wrote:
> what wrong with my syntax?
>
> local myfiles: dir "C:\data\kingdom\*.csv"
The help file is difficult to decipher only because we cannot shake our 
DOS intuition.  Here is the command that you want:

local myfiles: dir "C:\data\kingdom\" files "*.csv"
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