Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!ken
From: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: CurrentDir
Message-ID: <15072@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 11 Oct 90 14:05:20 GMT
References: <1990Oct11.012013.24234@hoss.unl.edu>
Reply-To: ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Oct11.012013.24234@hoss.unl.edu> 252u3130@fergvax.unl.edu writes:
> I'm using Lattice 'C' and I'm changing the current directory in it.
> Well, when the program quits, the SHELL path and the current directory
> are off.  I need to find out what the command is to read the name
> of the current directory so I can chdir to it at the end of the program.

This should do it.  Randell will pipe in if I got it wrong...   ;-)

/* get a lock on the desired directory. */
if (0 != (lock = Lock(name,accessMode)))
    oldLock = CurrentDir(lock);     /* change current dir */

/* run program given new current dir.
** the program will run here if it cannot get the lock,
** but it will be run from the (potentially) wrong dir.
*/
runProgram();

if (0 != lock) /* only change back and unlock if we got it. */
    {
    CurrentDir(oldLock);   /* change back to original dir */
    UnLock(lock);
    }

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