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From: ksh@ai.mit.edu (K. Shane Hartman)
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Subject: Re: Relative path to Absolute Path
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Date: 25 Apr 91 03:22:26 GMT
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In-reply-to: pt@geovision.gvc.com's message of 23 Apr 91 18:32:15 GMT

In article <1515@geovision.gvc.com> pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin) writes:

   Although I got absolutely zero response to this request, I did find an
   answer.  With the error checking turned off, what I ended up doing was
   approximately this:

	   chdir(new_dir);
	   getcwd(new_dir, MAX_PATH_LEN);

   It works beatifully, on both VMS and unix.  (And probably DOS, but
   I wouldn't bet my life on it.)

Works fine in DOS too.  The only wrinkle I add to it is error checking
for nonexistent path and preserve the original path.

Shane Hartman