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From: phi@munnari.oz (Philip F. Hingston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Problem with paths and Execute()
Message-ID: <2331@munnari.oz>
Date: 31 Aug 88 02:45:41 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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	I've got this really neat C program that uses Execute() to run shell
scripts. It's nearly finished but I've come across a last minute hitch.
	When the program is run from a cli, the processes created by Execute()
inherit the search path from that cli. However, when run from the workbench,
they get the default search path ( CurrentDirectory + C: ). This is very
painful as I don't want to have to set a path for each process, possibly
causing "Please insert volume xxx" requesters and annoying the user.
	The program sys:cli seems to have some way of picking up the path that
was in effect when loadwb was run ( I think ).
	Can anyone tell me how to do this or suggest another solution to my
problem?

		Thanks in anticipation.		Philip Hingston
						(phi%munnari.oz@uunet.uu.net)