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spawning to my dir, not IDL dir !DIR [message #11738]

Fri, 15 May 1998 00:00

T Bowers
Messages: 56
Registered: May 1998

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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?

Also....

I set !path in my app with:

case (OSVersion) of
"unix" : begin pathSep = "/" & pathDelim = ":" & end
"windows" : begin pathSep = "\" & pathDelim = ";" & end
else : begin pathSep = "\" & pathDelim = "," & end ;macOS
endcase
!path = baseDir + pathDelim + appDir + pathDelim + !path

Can I pass this to spawn so i can find stuff?

tia,
todd bowers

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