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From: tanya@adds.newyork.NCR.COM (Tanya Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: sysv equivilant to getwd() -- getcwd()
Keywords: $PWD $cwd
Message-ID: <1124@adds.newyork.NCR.COM>
Date: 19 Jul 89 13:25:02 GMT
Organization: Applied Digital Data Systems
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In-reply-to: your article <15005@duke.cs.duke.edu>

> I am in need of getting the full pathname of the current working directory.
> In SUN OS (BSD) there is a call getwd() that when passed a buffer, returns
> that buffer with the current directory. Is there a work around for
> SYSTEM V? Is the PWD environment variable standard on all SYSTEM V machines
> under bourne shell and korn shell? Could I just do a getenv() on PWD?
> 
I think $PWD is just korn shell...

In system V  there is getcwd(3c)

from my manual

char * getcwd(buf, size)
char *buf;
int size;


> Thanks for any info.
Hope this is on your machine...

Tanya

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