This library is made of 3 parts: ftwx, misc, env env is a collection of environment processing functions. misc is a collection of miscellaneous functions. ftwx is a replacement for the standard ftw(3) function. When installing this library you may need to define the following flags in the Makefile: OLD_DIR if your system does not have the file /usr/include/dirent.h __FTWX_NO_FTW if your system does not have the ftw(3) function