[Coco] Get the current work path

[L. Curtis Boyle]

I don’t think you can do it quite that easily. Are you running stock OS9/shell, or Nitros9/shellplus?
What you may have to do is SHELL “PWD >-tempfile”
Then open tempfile, read a line (which will have your path), close it, and then delete tempfile.
(shellplus supports the '>-‘ to overwrite an existing file. If using standard shell, you will likely have to do an ON ERROR GOTO and try opening it first, and closing/deleting it if it opens without an error).


L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On Feb 14, 2018, at 9:22 PM, phil pt <ptaylor2446 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks
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> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:20 PM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Are you typing that at the command prompt for OS 9? In basic 09, it has to
>> be a statement in a source code file compiled in the basic 09 editor and
>> one from there if it is still giving you an error then check to make sure
>> that ex pwd is in quotes. I have to get my computer and Boot It Up to run a
>> test and give you some actual code give me a little time and I will post
>> back here with what I figure out.
>> 
>> On Feb 14, 2018 7:05 PM, "phil pt" <ptaylor2446 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I did that var$:=SHELL "ex pwd"  and I got a error
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:04 PM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com>
>>> wrote: