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Re: How can I change directory?

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From: Steve Horsley
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 00:00
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I had a feeling that I might have to keep track by hand. I will 
use my 'current directory' as a prepend string to all file requests
which are not absolute.
Then I can just change the prepend string as required.

Thanks for confirming the need to do this.

Steve.
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Tor Iver Wilhelmsen wrote:
> 
> Steve Horsley <steve.horsley@cwcom.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > I have written a little TFTP server. Currently, it serves files in
> > whichever directory it is started in. I would like to have a dialog
> > box that changes its default directory, but can't find anywhere in
> > the API that lets me do this.
> 
> Your basic problem is that you don't have an underlying shell
> environment, so you need to keep tab on where you are manually:
> FileDialog or JFileChooser could be of interest: Just call
> fileDialog.getDirectory() or
> jFileChooser.getSelectedFile().getAbsolutePath() to get the path.
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