Re: print working directory

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From: Allen Browne
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:49

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The current directory (as far as Windows is concerned), is:
    CurDir

The path of the executing database can be parsed from:
    dbEngine(0)(0).Name
or
    CodeProject.FullName

Use InstrRev() to find the last backslash.

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Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP.  Perth, Western Australia.
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"Ini" <ini@ini.myweb.nl> wrote in message
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>
> Is it possible in Access97 to display in a msgbox the name of the
directory
> I'm working in at that moment?
>
> It's like the pwd-command in UNIX-shells.
> pwd = print working directory

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