Using Directory Commands#

AFP provides these commands for working on directories:

FPSetDirParms
FPOpenDir (deprecated)
FPCloseDir (deprecated)
FPEnumerate, FPEnumerateExt, and FPEnumerateExt2
FPCreateDir

The FPSetDirParms command allows the AFP client to modify a directory’s parameters. To obtain a directory’s parameters from the file server, the AFP client uses the FPGetFileDirParms command, which is described in the section Using Combined Directory and File Commands.

On variable Directory ID volumes, the AFP client uses the FPOpenDir command to open a directory on and retrieve its Directory ID. The Directory ID is used in subsequent commands to enumerate the directory or to obtain access to its offspring. For variable Directory ID volumes, the FPOpenDir command is the only way to retrieve the Directory ID. Calling FPGetFileDirParms, FPEnumerate, FPEnumerateExt, or FPEnumerateExt2 to retrieve the Directory ID on such volumes causes an error to be returned.

On a fixed Directory ID volume, calling FPGetFileDirParms, FPEnumerate, FPEnumerateExt, or FPEnumerateExt2 is the preferred way to obtain a Directory ID, although calling FPOpenDir also works.

The AFP client can close directories on variable Directory ID volumes by sending the FPCloseDir command, which invalidates the corresponding Directory ID.

The AFP client uses the FPEnumerate, FPEnumerateExt, and FPEnumerateExt2 commands to list, or enumerate, the files and directories contained within a specified directory. In reply to this command, the server returns a list of directory or file parameters corresponding to those offspring. The FPEnumerateExt command differs from the FPEnumerate command in that the FPEnumerateExt command is prepared to handle larger values that may be returned when volumes are larger than 4 GB in size. The FPEnumerateExt2 command differs from the FPEnumerate command in that the StartIndex and MaxReplySize components to the FPEnumerateExt2 command are longs, allowing you to specify larger values than can be specified by the FPEnumerate and FPEnumerateExt commands.

Directories are created by the FPCreateDir command.

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