cychao@csun12.cs.uh.edu (Chih-Yu Chao (Dr. S. Huang)) (04/24/91)
Hi, Can somebody tell me how to Change Directory in my script file? DOS CD doesn't work. Thank you for your reply! ------------------------------------ CY Chao U. of Houston, Texas InterNet: cychao@cs.uh.edu ------------------------------------
jeffd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Jeffrey Alan Ding) (04/25/91)
In article <1991Apr24.132219.13101@menudo.uh.edu> cychao@csun12.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes: >Hi, Can somebody tell me how to Change Directory in my script file? >DOS CD doesn't work. Thank you for your reply! > >------------------------------------ >CY Chao U. of Houston, Texas >InterNet: cychao@cs.uh.edu >------------------------------------ Hi, what you can do is use the DRIVE command. Here's an example. MAP H:=SYS:SYSTEM DRIVE H First what you want to do is map the directory to whatever letter you want. In this case I mapped H to the system directory. Then use the DRIVE command to make the drive the default when you exit the script. You could also use a local drive letter here. Another way is using the external execute (#) command. Here's an example for that: MAP S1:=SYS:DOS MAP F:=SYS: SET COMSPEC = S1:COMMAND.COM DRIVE F #COMMAND /C CD \DOS This example uses COMMAND.COM to issue the DOS CD command. You have to have the path for COMMAND.COM mapped as a search before you issue the call otherwise it won't be found. I hope I got everything right here, if not, someone will surely point it out. :-) Later. jeffd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
maimer@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (04/26/91)
In article <11389@uwm.edu>, jeffd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Jeffrey Alan Ding) writes: > In article <1991Apr24.132219.13101@menudo.uh.edu> cychao@csun12.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes: >>Hi, Can somebody tell me how to Change Directory in my script file? > > Hi, what you can do is use the DRIVE command. Here's an example. > ... > > Another way is using the external execute (#) command. Here's an example > ... > We use an external command called CHNGDIR.EXE that is on the server. I'm pretty sure it is public domain, since we have tight financial restraints here. This has the advantage over the #command ... since the command.com isn't in the same place on everybody's machine (may be at c:\, c:\bin\, c:\dos\, a:\, etc.). -- |\ \\\\__ Tony Maimer __ | \_/ o \ / | > _ (( <_ / | | / \__+___/ maimer@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu /o /_/| |/ |/ < )) _ < \ \ \| \ | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++