4 Apr
2003
4 Apr
'03
11:59 p.m.
On Friday 04 April 2003 7:32 pm, Scott Burchill wrote:
I _totally_ agree, in principal, but ...
In my specific situation, the external method launches another program from a third party which breaks if the cwd is not correct. I don't like it but have to deal with it until the legacy crud is gone (which I'm working on.)
If this is on Unix then the right approach is to fork, chdir in the child, then exec. If this is windows, or you dont want to get into unixness, the no-brainer approach is to write a temporary wrapper script or batch file that changes directory then runs the real process. -- Toby Dickenson http://www.geminidataloggers.com/people/tdickenson