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Re: How to have "read" search more than one folder?

From	Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com>
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.maple
Subject	Re: How to have "read" search more than one folder?
Date	2015-02-17 07:37 -0800
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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jbuddenh <jbuddenh@gmail.com> writes:

> I have old Maple 7 running on a windows 8.1 PC.  Most stuff works fine, but one problem I'm having is that
>
> read abc;
>
> attempts to read file abc from some default directory (how do I change
> what that directory is?).  If the read fails I would like it to search
> subdirectories automatically.  But it doesn't.  Basically, I would
> like a "search path" of read to include or be set up with more than
> one directory where it will search.

Use currentdir("some_path") to change directories.


-- 
Joe Riel

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How to have "read" search more than one folder? jbuddenh <jbuddenh@gmail.com> - 2015-02-16 20:18 -0800
  Re: How to have "read" search more than one folder? Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com> - 2015-02-17 07:37 -0800
    Re: How to have "read" search more than one folder? jbuddenh <jbuddenh@gmail.com> - 2015-02-18 16:56 -0800

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