Hello Francois!

17 Apr 95, Francois Thunus writes to Richard Hulme:

 FT> [change dir at exit]

 RH>> Although this does make programs such 'LCD' a bit difficult to write
 RH>> (the only way I know to do it is in REXX),

 FT> How ?

Ok, perhaps I didn't put that quite correctly.  The only way I've *seen* it
done is via REXX (probably even just a straight-forward command file would
do) in association with an EXE file or a DLL.

I think it has to be done by the user running the command file which in
turn runs the executable (or loads the DLL).  The executable then finds the
right directory to change into and returns the name somehow.  Probably the
easiest way is to create another .CMD file in your temporary directory
(specified by the TMP or TEMP environment variable), CALL this from your
original command file and then delete the it.

I suppose you could pass the directory name back using named pipes, but I
don't know how easy it is to use named pipes under REXX.

Hope this helps.

bcnu,

Richard.

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