LPM: Changing drives in Windows?

Richard Walker Richard.Walker at west-server.com
Wed Dec 15 15:07:25 CST 1999



David Hempy wrote:
> 
> Okay, surely this is a no-brainer, but I'm stumped.  Let's say I run a perl
> program while in C:\.  It needs to access some files on different drives.
> I tried:
> 
>         chdir "D:\db";

try 
chdir "d:\\db";

> 
> This did not change the program's cd to D:.  I assume it acts like cd from
> the command line, which changes D:'s cd, but leaves you on C: . (or where
> ever you are.)
> 
> No mention of it did I find in _Learning Perl on Win32 Systems_ nor on
> Active State's installed perl docs.  `PPM search Win32` yielded nothing
> useful.  Experiments like:
> 
>         `d:`;
> 
> proved fruitless.  I suspect if this line did work, it was only during the
> shell and reverted back when the program resumed.
> 
> I guess I could give absolute references to all my file accesses, but
> that's a drag.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> -dave
> 
> --
> David Hempy
> Internet Database Administrator
> Kentucky Educational Television



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