>> spawns a new process (the shell) which changes its directory (using the cd >> built-in) to /another/directory and then dies. << That is what I expected but I wanted to verify it to before I asked the question.
>> If you want to change the CWD of your process nevertheless, I guess you can >> use Extern[1] and access the chdir() function in the C library. << I suspect that might be a bit beyond my level of competence at this point. >> There is no concept of a current working directory in Gambas << >> A cleaner solution is to use absolute paths throughout. << That is tad inconvenient for what I am trying to do. I want to write a console based application to process a number of files in the directory from which the application is run with no concept of what that directory might be at design time. I was going to use the 'cd' command to change to a target directory for development/testing --- then comment it out afterwards. >> The CWD from process startup time is found in Application.Dir. << I think that can be used as an alternative solution to my problem. Thank you Tobias. Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
