[Coco] Get the current work path

[Wayne Campbell]

I think you're right Curtis. There is no system call I can find for
returning current working or execution directory. SHELL "ex pwd" and SHELL
"ex pxd" work in Basic09, but only return the path to stdout and trying to
put the output into a variable results in an error. Your method is probably
the one to use, though it requires extra code.

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 7:37 PM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:20 PM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> 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:
> >>
> >>> 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:
>
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