I need to know the name of every single file in a directory

I'm trying to run adir() in a very large directory about 100,000 files; the problem is that VFP array limit is 65,000 elements, so the names of the files do not fit in the array (I get an invalid subscript reference error).

I could do "DIR *.* to file DIR.TXT" then extract the names from the text file. Is there any easyer way to get all the file names in the directory? or better in a string variable separated by commas?

Thanks in advance