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Re: Cross-platform PWD [message #11906 is a reply to message #11898]

Tue, 02 June 1998 00:00

David Foster
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Registered: January 1996

Senior Member

Andy Loughe wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> Be the first to email me the answer to this question...
> it took me over 30 minutes to figure it out... and I will
> post your name as "IDL GENTLEMAN/LADY OF THE DAY".
>
> What is the simplest "cross-platform" method for
> obtaining the present working directory?
>
> P.S. It is not... spawn, 'pwd', pwd & print, pwd
> but the syntax is very close to this.

Prepare yourself, this is pretty profound:

cd, current=curdir

The Online help implies that this works across platforms (or at least
doesn't say it doesn't).

Dave
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		Re: Cross-platform PWD By: Andy Loughe on Wed, 03 June 1998 00:00
		Re: Cross-platform PWD By: David Foster on Tue, 02 June 1998 00:00
		Re: Cross-platform PWD By: davidf on Tue, 02 June 1998 00:00
		Re: Cross-platform PWD By: Andy Loughe on Tue, 02 June 1998 00:00

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