Re: store current path

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From: Bill Stewart
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 00:00

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> >>Is it possible to store the current path in a variable in a DOS batch
> >>file? Thanks in advance.
> 
> Try (in batch file(s)), 
> 
> oldpath=%path%
> 
> to set the variable 'oldpath' to the current path.
> 
> You can then play with the path setting (for using a particular
> application perhaps).
> 
> to reset the path to what it used to be....
> 
> path=%oldpath%

I think he meant the current directory, not the PATH variable.

My utility GO in the Unique DOS Utilities:

	ftp://ftp.coast.net/simtel/msdos/sysutil/suniq96.zip

lets you save the current directory as a separate batch file, and
then you run that temporary batch file to return to the current
directory, like this:

	go /s > c:\restdir.bat
	(do other stuff here)
	call c:\restdir.bat
	del c:\restdir.bat

This is the quickest way that I know of how to do it.

The Unique DOS Utilities also includes a slew of other handy stuff.

	- Bill (wstewart@unm.edu)

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Date: 1995/11/27
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