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- From: ksh@ai.mit.edu (K. Shane Hartman)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources,comp.unix.programmer,comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Relative path to Absolute Path
- Message-ID: <KSH.91Apr24232226@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 25 Apr 91 03:22:26 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
-