Re: Get current working directory
Re: Get current working directory
- Subject: Re: Get current working directory
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:27:52 +1000
- Thread-topic: Get current working directory
On 3/10/05 9:18 AM, "Doug McNutt" <email@hidden> wrote:
> At 08:25 +1000 10/3/05, Shane Stanley wrote in part::
>> You may be correct that there's a working
>> directory, but I'm not sure that it gets used anywhere.
>
> If you "do shell script" asking for $PWD you must remember that you'll get a
> new temporary shell that will get some default directory possibly set in a
> profile or *rc script
But that's the shell; I was talking about AS itself.
>
> One thing that might be considered a working directory is the directory that
> will be the starting point of a Choose File or Open File request that offers
> an open dialog. Aqua and carbon applications do seem to remember that.
It gets stored in a .plist file. But I'm not sure that really constitutes a
working directory.
> Apple doesn't think "users" should be exposed to working directories. Too much
> like DOS.
Did someone tell you that, or are you just assuming motive?
--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
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