OpenEuphoria

Re: Change Directory

• Posted by "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com> Nov 11, 2002
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> > How do I change the current directory to the directory from which the
> > program executed? I'm looking at command_line()[2] but then I have to
> > parse
> > out the program name. Isn't there just a chdir() command? I don't want
> > to do
> > a system call, either. Although I don't know why not. Anyway... anybody?
>
> When the program first loads, call built in function [current_dir()]
> from [file.e].  This returns a sequence string such as "C:\EUPHORIA\DOC"
> if the program was run from there.  Save this in a global sequence
> (SavedDir) and when you need to reset this call [chdir(SavedDir)] also
> from [file.e].

Hey! Thanks Don... Using current_dir() returns "C:" right off the bat, which
is wrong! I guess I'll need to parse command_line()[2]... :(