BH> My question is:  Can I change the directory from within
BH> a program and have it stay in effect after program 
BH> termination ????

No but you can cheat.  If you wrap the program in a REXX
script you can pass the new directory to the REXX program and
change directory with REXX.  I tried the same thing when I
got an OS/2 C compiler.

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