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Re: spawning to my dir, not IDL dir !DIR [message #11678]

Sun, 17 May 1998 00:00

davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996

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T Bowers (tbowers@nrlssc.navy.mil) writes:

> I'm trying to
>
> spawn, ".\apps\myapp .\data\mydata.dat"
>
> to use relative paths from my apps base dir so I don't have to
> string together possibly huge command strings with complete
> path names which could conceivably create a string longer than
> DOS will allow (128 chars I believe).
> How do I make it so that spawn spawns to any dir I want?

I would try changing the working IDL directory to the
directory you want to use before issuing the Spawn command:

CD, Current=thisDirectory
CD, './myapps/data'
Spawn, 'myprograms'
CD, thisDirectory

Cheers,

David

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