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Subject: Re: MS-DOS version questions
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In article <9821@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> andyd@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Andy
Davidson) writes: 
   Is there a way in the MS-DOS version of perl to

       1. chdir to another drive?  If I do
	       chdir("d:/stuff") || die "Couldn't chdir: $!";
	  I get no error, but neither does the chdir take effect.

Um, I don't have an msdos perl workin, but come on!!  You know that
chdir on messydos is independent of the default drive....

try following the above line with something like
               system("d:") || die "Couldn't switch drives: $!";