Re: Snews 1.30. Changing shelled working directory desired effect?

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From: John Washington
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 00:00

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On Saturday, in article <826362695snz@keris.demon.co.uk>
     chris@keris.demon.co.uk "Chris Croughton" wrote:

CC> I'll tell you something worse, though - if you run Windows under Novell
CC> networking software then if you change the directory in one program it
CC> changes in all others running as well.  That's a *really* serious
CC> problem...

Whereas I'm trying to figure out why, if I do the following:

        start a dos prog (such as an editor)
        shell out to dos
        x   (where x.bat contains cd\foobar)
        exit

I am now accessing \foobar as my current directory (as I would hope)
unless I did this in a dos box under NT 3.5.  Works fine in
DOS 5, DOS 6.2, WfWG 3.11, Win95.

It also works fine in NT if I type cd\foobar instead of x, so it
seems to have something to do with running a batch file.
Anyone any advice?  It's driving me scatty having to type in
long pathnames by hand.

--
John Washington

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