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  Set working directory Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-10-20 13:44 +0100
    Re: Set working directory Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-10-20 14:54 +0100
      Re: Set working directory Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-10-20 15:36 +0100

#5847 — Set working directory

I can set the current working directory by clicking into the directory
where my BASIC files are held and use 'Set directory' from the 'Filer'
window. I often forget so when I run the first program containing a
CHAIN keyword it fails (can't find next program). It would be easier
to double-click an obeyfile (perhaps called !RUN_FIRST) to do this but
the one tried below doesn't work.

Pseudo application directory with !Boot and !Run obeyfiles
containing...

Set Graphics_sequence$Dir <Obey$Dir>.^    (!Boot)

/<Obey$Dir>.!Boot    (!Run)

Any solution please?

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#5848

On 20 Oct, Richard Ashbery wrote in message
    <5805eb497bbasura@invalid.addr.uk>:

> I can set the current working directory by clicking into the directory
> where my BASIC files are held and use 'Set directory' from the 'Filer'
> window. I often forget so when I run the first program containing a CHAIN
> keyword it fails (can't find next program). It would be easier to
> double-click an obeyfile (perhaps called !RUN_FIRST) to do this but the
> one tried below doesn't work.

If all you're trying to do is set the current working directory, then surely
an obey file containing simply

  Dir <Obey$Dir>

would do it?

If you add back in the complexity of the application folder, then

  Dir <Obey$Dir>.^

would set the directory to that within which the application lives. I'm not
sure why you need that, though.

-- 
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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#5849

In article <mpro.pzoelw02gb5vo01xa.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>, Steve
Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:
> On 20 Oct, Richard Ashbery wrote in message
>     <5805eb497bbasura@invalid.addr.uk>:

> > I can set the current working directory by clicking into the
> > directory where my BASIC files are held and use 'Set directory'
> > from the 'Filer' window. I often forget so when I run the first
> > program containing a CHAIN keyword it fails (can't find next
> > program). It would be easier to double-click an obeyfile (perhaps
> > called !RUN_FIRST) to do this but the one tried below doesn't
> > work.

> If all you're trying to do is set the current working directory,
> then surely an obey file containing simply

>   Dir <Obey$Dir>

> would do it?

> If you add back in the complexity of the application folder, then

>   Dir <Obey$Dir>.^

> would set the directory to that within which the application lives.
> I'm not sure why you need that, though.

I vaguely remember I had a method that did this and the one I dug up
was the one above (I believe from Martin Bazley). Method seemed hugely
over complicated and doesn't work anyway.

Yes of course you are right Dir <Obey$Dir> is all that's needed. I've
done this before but forgotten how - very annoying I should forget a
simple thing like that.

Many thanks Steve

Richard

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