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Article #5506Re: where are you after a batch file
From: Glenn Connery
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1986 19:43
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1986 19:43
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> Where are you after a batch file completes? Wherever it chooses to leave > you. Where do you want to be? Back where you started. How can you get > there automatically? > > I have just written a c program that reads the current working directory and > outputs it. This output is just right for a batch file to return you to > where you want to be. If any one is interested, send me e-mail. > > John Higley > ...tektronix!tekig5!johnhi But just doing "CD >somefile" gets you that. What you really want is programs that PUSH and POP the current directory, so that they can handle nested calls (I use them both in CED synonyms and in batch files). Glenn
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bnrmtv.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!amdcad!amdahl!bnrmtv!connery From: connery@bnrmtv.UUCP (Glenn Connery) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: where are you after a batch file Message-ID: <240@bnrmtv.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 14:43:28 EST Article-I.D.: bnrmtv.240 Posted: Tue Jan 28 14:43:28 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Feb-86 00:31:45 EST References: <440@tekig5.UUCP> Organization: Bell Northern Research, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 16