OpenEuphoria

Current Directory

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Feb 12, 2003
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In Windows and DOS environments, how can I get Euphoria to tell me the 
current directory of a drive that is not the current drive?

My understanding is that each drive in a DOS/Windows system has its own 
current directory setting. I know that current_dir() will give me the 
directory that I started running the Euphoria program from, but how do I 
find the current diretory of any of the other drives.

If possible, I'd prefer NOT to use a Windows API or DOS interrupt to get 
the info.

In fact, what I'm trying to do is write a function that is given a filepath 
string, and have it return the same path but in standardized - full - form. 
This should take into consideration any ".\" and "..\" and leading "DRIVE:" 
combinations. I've almost succeeded except for paths given in the form ...

    P:myfolder\myfile.abc

I know the drive "P:" but the rest is supplied relative to the current 
directory *on that drive*! And now I need to know how to get that info.

Maybe somebody has already got a neat function that does all this (hint, 
hint).

I'm not even going to try network paths yet 
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cheers,
Derek Parnell