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

Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.maple
Date	2015-02-18 16:56 -0800
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Subject	Re: How to have "read" search more than one folder?
From	jbuddenh <jbuddenh@gmail.com>

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On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 9:37:03 AM UTC-6, jo...@san.rr.com wrote:
> jbuddenh wrote:
> 
> > 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

Thanks Joe.  That helps.  I see now how I can set it up to do what I want.
--
JB

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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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