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Re: Finding the CSD

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From: banks_p
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:46
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In article <1gke2bINN2up@swan.doc.ic.ac.uk>, mybg@doc.ic.ac.uk (M Y Ben Gershon) writes:
> dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk (Denis Howe) writes:
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> -Set FS <FileSwitch$CurrentFilingSystem>
> -SetEval CSD "<FS>:"+FileSwitch$<FS>$CSD
> 
> I am sorry to disappoint you, but this does not work either!  It remains
> constant and is not altered when the csd is changed.

   Of course it doesn't. It is not a code variable. To do what you want
would reqire writing some short assembler. This approach is designed to
allow you to find out the CSD at a *particular point in time*. This is
useful for Obey scripts that need to know the CSD or whatever but is by no
means intended to be a continually updating CSD variable.

   And of course it is considerably simpler to do than repeated calls to 
OS_GBPB and popping up directory layers which was what was required under
RO2.


Philip
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Subject: Re: Finding the CSD
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