Getting a List of Visible Files
Mac OS X
Assumes you have already set the directory. - Ed.

As MacOSX is basically Unix, a file starting with a dot is invisible. So you could apply a filter such as 

put the files into theFiles
filter the lines of theFiles with "[a-Z]"
Posted 7/04/2002 by Jan Schenkel to the Use Revolution List   (See the complete post/thread)