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From: fs-info@sbsvax.UUCP (Fachschaft Mathe/Info)
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Subject: Re: Full pathname of file wanted
Summary: Spontaneous idea
Message-ID: <716@sbsvax.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 89 10:33:27 GMT
References: <883@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Organization: Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, W-Germany
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In article <883@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Leila Burrell-Davis) writes:
> I would like to pass to a program the full pathname of a file
> whose location I give relative to the current directory. For
> example, if I am in directory C:\SUBA\SUB1 and give the command
> FOO ..\SUB2\MYFILE.EXT

try a change directory to the specified relative path (possibly stripping
a trailing filename, and remember the old dir), and then issue a get current
work directory - this will (as far as I know) always return a full pathname
(including the drive, I think).

> Can anyone suggest how I might do this?

Hope I could.

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