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6.1 vs. previous: runtime changes working directory [message #43213]

Thu, 24 March 2005 14:44

Vince Hradil
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Registered: December 1999

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I typically deploy programs by creating a .sav file then using a
shell-script to run: idl -rt=/usr/local/idlsavs/whatever.sav

In the main program in the sav file, I check to see if the user started
idl from within our "data" directory hierarchy, something like:

cd, current=cwd
if strpos(cwd,datadirpath) ge 0 then fpath=cwd else fpath=datadirpath

Then I can use this info for my dialog_pickfile:

fname = dialog_pickfile(path=fpath)

And the user doesn't have to navigate through multiple layers of
subdirectories, just to get to where he started.

In previous versions of idl (oh, say 5.4 - 6.0?) this worked fine.
I've just now recompiled in 6.1 and despite starting the program from
within the datadirpath hierarchy, the "cd, current=cwd" sets cwd to be
the directory where the sav file is ("/usr/local/idlsavs" in the
example above)

So, what's my question?
1. Is there a cl flag for idl that will set a working directory - if I
were using Windoze, perhaps I could set "Start in:", but, alas I'm
using Solaris.
2. Is this a feature? If so, why?

TIA

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		6.1 vs. previous: runtime changes working directory By: Vince Hradil on Thu, 24 March 2005 14:44
		Re: 6.1 vs. previous: runtime changes working directory By: Michael Wallace on Fri, 25 March 2005 16:08
		Re: 6.1 vs. previous: runtime changes working directory By: Vince Hradil on Fri, 25 March 2005 15:15
		Re: 6.1 vs. previous: runtime changes working directory By: R.Bauer on Fri, 25 March 2005 08:55

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