Yes, it would. This falls into the "If I were trying to get there, I wouldn't start from here category", but I was answering the specific point about "how do I use seek(POS)" rather than the broader "how do I present 90,000 files to the user".

I agree with thpfft trying to present them all to the user isn't the way, and a search would be much better.

Unless the filenames are descriptive (and this is difficult if they are in 8.3 notation), the search needs to be on some content or keywords related to the file as well, so you really should have some sort of persistent Database interface to the directory.
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Brovnik.

Edit: chipmunk 2001-05-19