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From: m-liu@flims (Micky Liu)
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Subject: Help with directories and batch files...
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Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 01:44:05 EST
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I am trying to use a batch file to:

1) save the current directory
2) goto another directory
3) execute some program
4) return to saved directory

I'm having a great deal of trouble trying to get PC-DOS 3.1 to do this.  In
Unix it would look like:

OLDDIR=`pwd`
cd \anywhere\i\have\to\go
program-that-i-want-to-execute
cd $OLDDIR

Anybody out there have any idea how I can do this?  Step one is the problem
here.  In the manual it says that DOS remembers the original directory, but
it doesn't return to the original directory at the end of the batch file.  I
tried to write a program to put something in the environment, but that is no
good since when the program terminates the newly modified environment goes
with it...

Thanking you all in advance!!!

Micky Liu

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