The DirScan class provides a convenient interface for scanning directories in Shore VAS clients. This document describes how to use the DirScan class. The Shore release includes a simple example program called shls ("Shore ls "), that illustrates the use of the DirScan class. Shls can be found in the examples/shls directory of the Shore release. The DirScan class is part of the SDL library, but it is not necessary to use SDL or the SDL compiler to use it.