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From: ESR@SLACVM.BITNET (Ed Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: saving your current directory in a batch file
Message-ID: <90276.131559ESR@SLACVM.BITNET>
Date: 3 Oct 90 21:15:59 GMT
References: <1990Oct3.191915.27046@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: SLAC Computing Services
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>Does anyone have a small program that allows you to save what disk and
>directory you a presently in and later return you to that directory?
>What I have in mind is something like the following application:
>
>---------------------------------
>@echo off
>[save current directory]
>d:
>cd \wherever
>[run application]
>[return to original directory]
>---------------------------------
>
>In short, nothing fancy but good for running applications from anywhere on
>the disk, without losing what place you are on the disk. (Ideal for the
>helpless using the office software barely knowing what they are doing.)

That is a simple matter using functions available in Personal REXX