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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Looking for an interactive directory change pgm.
Message-ID: <1146@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 89 04:44:34 GMT
References: <3311@cs.dal.ca>
Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (Jim Wright)
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Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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In article <3311@cs.dal.ca> lane@cs.dal.ca (John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane) writes:
| What I want is just a program that allows a user to type in a directory
| path and/or drive name and changes the default drive/directory accordingly.
| 
| The reason I want this is for use with dumb pgms that don't let you change
| directories once in them and thus require the user to get to the appropriate
| directory first.
| 
| Yes, I know it's a two line (or whatever) C program but I'm really lazy
| and I figure there's just *got* to be something out there already (and
| I hate re-inventing the wheel).

How about a 3 line batch file:
	cd z:\path\to\your\application
	application /with /your /favorite %1 %2 %3 /switches %4 %5
	cd c:\
Gets you in and out painlessly.  I've got tons of these that get dumped
to a ramdisk at startup.  Thus my path only has about 3 entries in it.

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu