%CD directive

Changes Current Directory, PC Windows only.

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Parameters

DIRECTORY = text

Directory to change to

CURRENT = text

Saves new directory

Description

The %CD directive can be used to change directory under Windows or DOS. The DIRECTORY specifies the directory as a text containing either the absolute or relative pathname, for example 'C:/CONSULT/DATA' or '../../PROJECT'.

Note that a forward slash (/) may be used as a directory separator character, as the backwards slash (\) is the Genstat continuation character and would have to be doubled up. Environment variables may be used in the path name, for example '%TEMP%/temp.out', and %GENDIR% can be used to specify the Genstat root directory (eg. C:).

The CURRENT parameter saves the new directory name. You can obtain the name of the current directory by typing the command

%CD '.'; CURRENT=curdir

which will set up curdir as a text containing the current directory name.