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From: glen@intelca.UUCP (Glen Shires)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Re: where are you after a batch file
Message-ID: <203@intelca.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 13:01:01 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 30 13:01:01 1986
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> > Where are you after a batch file completes?  Wherever it chooses to leave
> > you.  Where do you want to be?  Back where you started.  How can you get
> > there automatically?
> > ... 
>    In pc-dos 2.1 - if you do a cd in the  .bat file you are left in that
> directory, otherwise you stay in the same directory.  (Am I missing something?)
> 
> > John Higley
> > ...tektronix!tekig5!johnhi
> 
> --henry schaffer
Often you can get around this by specifying a programs full path name like:
c:\yourdir\yourfile

Also, you can use the DOS "PATH=c:\;c:\yourdir" command

But not always...

For those programs that must run with the current directory elsewhere
here's a hack around your problem:

create a dummy skeleton file in root CDMSG.BAT containing only
   "CD "
 (CD<space>)    NO CARRIAGE RETURN

then put in your batch file:

copy c:\cdmsg.bat c:\zap.bat          copy "CD " shell into zap.bat
cd >>c:\zap.bat                       add current directory "CD C:\NOW\HERE"
cd where\ever\you\want\to\go          now change directories freely
yourprog                              and execute your programs
c:\zap.bat                            now go back to original directory
del c:\zap.bat                        and delete temp file

NOTE: you do not have to place CDMSG.BAT and ZAP.BAT in your root directory,
but you must always place it in the same directory and specify a full
path name

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