[Coco] Get the current work path

[phil pt]

Maybe using syscall?

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:43 PM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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